Fake Meat!

PETA has, in my opinion, done something very good. According to the Times,PETA will offer an X-prize like competition for development of test tube meat.  The idea, clearly, is that if oen can produce steak and chicken without killing animals, then the moral dilemma many of us face when confronted with a cheeseburger (strong desire to eat it vs the belief that the pain caused in producing it is bad) will vanish  Yet, I read in the same article that this is quite controversial. Apparently some animal rights advocates are opposed to fake meat. My question for you, dearest Kossacks, is what is the argument against fake meat. (In additional to preventing animal suffering, fake meat production would also cut back on the environmental destructiveness of factory farms)

Of course it is open to debate whether such test-tube meat would really be "fake." Unlike Boca burgers, which I enjoy but which also are quite different from hamburger.

The Times article is here