It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.
If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.
Being against cultured meat isn't anti-science, it's anti-pointless-effort. We have all the necessary technology to not consume meat (and thereby not consume all the resources breeding animals just to kill them requires).
Cultured meat isn't factory farming. Its growing meat using cells, a process that involves no animals being harmed at all.
Yeah, I know what it is. We already have the ability to not eat meat, so why should we waste all this scientific effort on creating it without an animal involved (oops, except the animal you need to yank the stem cells out of)?