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This stuff was basically ready to go minus scaling up two decades ago. They were still working on adding marbling and texture into steaks that could fool you in a blind test, but amazed it’s taken this long to get to sausages.
I think you got your timing wrong. The first prototype of cultured meat was presented 2013 and costed about 250.000 € back then. "Minus scaling up" was and is a pretty big issue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/world-first-synthetic-hamburger-mouth-feel