How could it be? All of the dependencies on producing meat the old fashioned way already exist, having to recreate all of that in an artificial environment will of course be more expensive. A lot of costs to create meat naturally are externalities, there would be less externalities to an artificial system of meat production. It can't compete.
In space though, where you have to create the dependencies no matter how you do it, reducing them to the minimum required to produce the meat itself is a lot less intensive than creating grasslands, or growing grain, and growing living animals and keeping them alive, providing them air and water, etc. So lab grown meat is still an important realm of study because if things go well for humans we will need it.
How could it be? All of the dependencies on producing meat the old fashioned way already exist, having to recreate all of that in an artificial environment will of course be more expensive. A lot of costs to create meat naturally are externalities, there would be less externalities to an artificial system of meat production. It can't compete.
In space though, where you have to create the dependencies no matter how you do it, reducing them to the minimum required to produce the meat itself is a lot less intensive than creating grasslands, or growing grain, and growing living animals and keeping them alive, providing them air and water, etc. So lab grown meat is still an important realm of study because if things go well for humans we will need it.