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Christ. New horrors beyond my imagination.
Still, my point stands that there are already risks to animal agriculture. Tasmanian devil cancers don't make this a no go IMO.
(I am aware that's not what you are suggesting)
I would imagine synthetic meat would be strictly regulated anyway. According to the article OP linked, there's only two companies in the US that have been approved to make synthetic meat.
Yup, Tasmanian Devil facial tumor disease is indeed pretty graphic.
It should be noted however that the transmission is limited to within a single species, which recently went through a population bottleneck that resulted in their immune systems having difficulty telling each other's cells apart. Something like a bovine-to-human transmissible cancer would be orders of magnitude more unlikely.
Wouldn't the end goal be to create immortal cell lines for the various cuts of meat? Otherwise, we need to keep (albeit much smaller) populations of livestock around to continually harvest new cells from.