Not really concerned about what happens in Alabama outside of college football.
I will withhold judgement on lab-grown meat until I've had a chance to try it. As I said in another thread, if a lab can produce a close facsimile of Kobe/Wagyu beef for a fraction of the cost (it's currently $160/lb at my local Wegmans), then I'll be all over it.
I also agree with the sentiment that a lot of what we eat is probably less similar to real "meat" then we probably want to think about, fast food chicken nuggets being a prime example.