The politicians getting paid off by wealthy oligarchs to maintain their oligarchic wealth, and the voters being told a bunch of lies to justify it, seems a much more parsimonious explanation.
It's not just lab-grown meat. Factory farming, GMOs, etc. are treated as skeptically.
Why would any grown man waste more than 2 seconds worrying about this?
There's an all-too-ample supply of men who are physically grown up...but mentally...well...um...