Isn't that cute.

I've been thinking since the 1970s that we'd decrease the 2nd biggest use of petroleum, plastic, using genetic engineering.

Many biological substances could replace plastic, such as chitin and cellulose.

But "lab grown meat", like "full self driving" and "artificial intelligence", is a name that's a giant leap of faith beyond the actual technology.

Lab grown meat is still only the flesh protean cells grown in a mold to look like a fish fillet. None of the structural components of the real thing are reproduced.

To use this tech as a structural plastic replacement, we'll have to reach the point of controlling the shape of the material as the cells proliferate.

Of course, before that, we'll have to overthrow the petro mafia's control of the US.