CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

This product is the sort of product I suspect the fad blitz against "ultraprocessed foods" is really targeted at.

Not necessarily.

It might be some Big Meat conspiracy to combat these upstarts, but there's also reasonable data indicating that less processing results in better health outcomes.

I’ve seen very little that isn’t just correlation of highly processed food consumption and generally poor lifestyle

Here, this is a solid intro you can thread out of at your leisure. There's really no controversy around this at a scientific level, only on social media:

https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/ultra-processed-food