This is really about money. Big business is ramping up artificial meat and big farming is also shifting to growing vegetarian food crops. Real meat will be only for the rich. Just the way they like it.
The vegetarian farming isn't more ethical either. Its usually mono-cropping at large scale. see also: corn.
These aren't trivial questions. The food industry has a habit of lacing processed food with so much junk its barely recognisable.
Well, you don't have to welcome it. That's the current world. Ask the lady who cleans your office toilets how often she eats organic, or even just fruit, other than tomatoes.
For the time being you can find such meat in countries outside the Americas that still have small scale farms, particularly in the EU where the prophylactic use of antibiotics on farm animals is banned since 2018.
" It seems unimaginative of you to suppose ..."
What is it with the personal tone in comments in these sorts of discussions? I've had the absolute worst experience discussing these things on HN, as opposed to all other kinds of discussion. Other discussions are generally civil and polite. When it comes to meat eating and animals' rights, it's a free for all and everyone thiks it's fine to walk all over good manners and attack other commenters' intellect, their morality, anything. I mean, wtf?
That's a bit of a strawman there. Improving food tech does not need to be a zero sum game. Can it not be that food quality will in general improve? Much like how access to clean water (at least in the Western world) has improved a lot compared to past centuries.