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I think its a good thing. Cultivated "meat" is just a giant cancer grown in laboratory. Imagine what health risks eating cancer could bare...
I disagree with that statement generally, but anyway, you can't catch cancer. You can catch a disease that causes cancer, but eating cancer itself wouldn't give you cancer. You can however catch prion disease... And these can live in real flesh/meat you get from a shop.
Also, there will be ground up cancer in processed meat. I guarantee it. You don't think farm animals get cancer?
Transmissible cancers do exist in animal kingdom. (Tasmanian devils for example). So caution is justified.
However, as far as I know, synthetic meat would be made out of muscle cells which are not immortalized.
Transmissible cancer
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.