Oh, don’t worry about that.
In order to grow cells in a lab, one must have quantities of serum. Usually it’s fetal calf serum, although, for some applications, newborn calf or other serum types will suffice.
Fetal calves are obtained when their mothers are slaughtered. So you still get the meat and leather.
This may be a technological wonder, but I don’t see how it could possibly be ramped up to produce enough for a food supply—even if people were willing to eat laboratory products—since the supplies needed are so expensive. I’ve used thousands of dollars worth of fetal calf serum during my career; I doubt I’ve grown enough cells to make even a pound of meat.
Yea, and probably some eco-terrorist group will burn the lab down anyway. But I see your point.
You may be sure it’ll be a government grant drain in perpetuity, research that goes on as far as the eye can see into the future.
I think you may have been doing it wrong.