Came to a realization a few months back that's related in an ancillary manner to this post via the concept of "created vs. converted energy" - fake/lab-grown meat.

It's made, as best I can tell, from peas.

Humans can derive nutrition from eating peas.

They're basically converting one form of human food to another form of human food.

Cattle (and ruminants in general), on the other hand, convert grass and leaves, from which humans CANNOT derive nutrition, to meat/milk, from which humans CAN (obviously) derive nutrition.

The real question, then is "What's the end-goal of the fake-meat gang in trying to eliminate a major source of human nutrition?".

Several possible answers come to mind, ranging from bad to worse.