Look, the reason this is retarded is because the things you eat need to be alive and precious to some degree. The more unique, important, and “alive” something is, the better qualities it imparts onto the subject that’s consuming it. You need to be actually killing something in order to obtain vitality from its carcass.
What about plant matter? Nuts? Beans? Grain? Yeah they fucking suck. Human beings evolved from primal homunculi into thinking, hunting, killing predator creatures with enlarged craniums because we were slurping bone marrow from the leftover ribcages of sabre tooth tiger kills.
The more meat we ate, the bigger we grew, the stronger we became, and the smarter we could think. We literally took a step back biologically when we began eating grain. By softening our diets we exchanged our biological progress for societal stratification and location stability. We split humanity into a slave class of grain eating porridge peasants upholding a well fed aristocracy with more access to meat.
Everyone who tries to tell you there are perfectly fine substitutes for animal products is a retard or a liar, and probably both. Vegans are emaciated subhuman scum that willingly proselytize a death cult based off a misguided emotional manipulation that not even level headed children fall for.
But this isn’t the “vegans are retarded” thread, you can go look that one up if you’re uninitiated, this is the “why can’t we grow soulless meat bags” thread. And to answer your question very simply, first of all we can’t. And if we tried, it would be inedible disgusting garbage that gives you super cancer.
Human beings have zero control or capacity to create life beyond fulfilling the instincts of their own reproductive organs. All of medical science is just grafting severed feet onto forehead veins and concentrating fungus mold into capsules and praying to God the natural healing process keeps doing its own thing. We are bystanders cheering on incomprehensibly complex systems we could never hope to simulate on our own. At best we're capable of bare imitations cobbled together from tumors, and if we actually get anywhere it'll wipe out half the human population by accident.
Food is both the catalyst and the reflection of its consumer. You live in a bugbox getting poked, prodded, and raped already by systems beyond your comprehension because the meat you eat has the same done to it. There functionally is no difference between modern livestock and the "bodyoid". The only meaningful distinction is that an actual pig gets to think, feel, and experience something and therefore imparts that spiritually into its entire body, delivered in the physical sense via the complex bacteria in its feed.
It's important that killing something feels a little wrong. It's a sacrifice ritual. You're ending something that matters so that you can feed something that matters more. Thousands of years of selective breeding have already turned wild animals into domesticated meat cubes that beg to be slaughtered and smile from heaven when they're getting eaten. The reason it works is because nature's processes sharpen away the impurities over time.
Everything you eat becomes you. It's a prey's martyrdom perk exploding a hand grenade in your stomach and immortalizing itself in your DNA forever as a final payment for the benefits you gain from eating its flesh. You owe it to yourself to eat better animals that have a proven benefit to the human body.
Nobody wants to eat bugs.
Nobody wants to eat 3D printed meat.
Nobody wants to eat the tubed up pussbag.
These are instinctual reactions of visceral disgust and they exist for a reason.
the ultimate solution is through technology
we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings
this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient
experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable
in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering