Needlessly inflammatory, I hoped that people might have learned that forcefully projecting their beliefs onto other people in a condescending way doesn't work.

Needlessly inflammatory, I hoped that people might have learned that forcefully projecting their beliefs onto other people in a condescending way doesn't work. I say this as someone who would have no issues with eating artificial meat replacements as long as they were affordable to the average Joe and taste roughly the same. Taste is arguably the most important factor, people don't want "chicken" or "beef" that doesn't brown when cooked and only vaguely resembles the real thing with weird off-flavors. Pushing this hard, this early, for people to adopt "high tech" food will just delay the progress in the long term. I don't have any deep rooted aversion to genetically modified food either, but it needs to undergo an appropriate level of studies to show that the food is safe in the long term. Move fast and break things isn't an appropriate approach when it comes to feeding hundreds of millions, or even billions of people.