Quote Originally Posted by Kantaki View Post
They aren't eating meat, they're eating mushrooms*.
I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.
Fungus, not necessarily a mushroom. Yeasts and molds are also fungi.

He's probably referring to a future strain of Fusarium venenatum. A current strain is now being produced commercially.

It makes sense if your space and power is limited. It's easier to make a single source of protein and flavor it, rather than have multiple cloning facilities for all the meat types.

And, as it's a simpler genetic structure, it'd be easier to engineer necessary nutrients into it. Various amino acids, enzyme production, etc.