I actually dislike such food. It is currently betraying the customer, because nobody would buy it if they would write that this cheese is not made of milk, but of taste-free proteins with artificial aromas. Instead, they sell it for the same price and under the same label as real cheese, but just write the truth into the fine print.
I also dislike the "overoptimization". Making one kg of meat costs x liters of water. Yes. That is what a living being drinks and eats before it is old enough to be butchered. But what it makes of the water can be returned into drinking water by simple processes and little effort. Contrary, a single solar cell or a single electric car battery consumes way more liters of water for the processes, pollutes some water more, and is then sold as "ecologic". And that water is nearly impossible to be cleaned completely, a lot of the resulting pollution ends in toxic waste dumps.
So why should I care about such talking? A single cow is likely three times more effective than any artificial solution.
Also, there is the "dignity of life" thing for me. you can sure complain about industrial meat production having no dignity at all. It is the wrong thing created by organized crime. But then, that does not apply to all butchers. If you pay for your meat, you can expect it to be good and have a name. What dignity has a vat of proteins have? would you feel relaxed when walking along a artificial meat factory? Or would you feel better when going past cows?
I don't believe in human solutions being always better than nature. Nature had way longer to optimize and way harder standards of quality. Who could prove that artificial meat proteins won't cause CJD or similar diseases? Or cancer? Natural meat does aid in cancer, but is still way more healthy than for example breathing the air in Los Angeles for a day.
