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From what I have read the current stuff is basically artificially flavored jello with some vat grown animal cells thrown in for branding purposes.
I think its more feasible to develop some new meat like substance from yeast and reprogrammed bacteria than to make real chunks of meat from existing animal cells.
The composition of muscle is too complicated to build in a lab. Maybe some day they might make some non sentient biological machine that grows meat that can be harvested but I imagine that level of genetic engineering is many decades from where we are.