Here is my reaction.
We maintain and slaughter too many animals for our food and leather products. And along with the expansion of population, the number of livestock will increase. But, to keep living animals make a big sacrifice for environment. The one reason of that is they emit gases which accelerate global warming. So today, instead of animals, biofabrication is thought to be going to be sustainable and scalable alternative means. Actually, in medicine, sophisticated body parts are made and implanted successfully. However, most people may hesitate to eat novel food which is made artificially. So they decided to start with leather products. By biofabrication, leather is made from scratch so they control its nature. That means they can make leather which have desired qualities. As this fact shows us, biofabrication is environmentally responsible, efficient and humane. Therefore, we should think back about slaughtering animals as a resource.
In my point of view, biofabrication is really useful way to produce leather goods. I don’t think people hang back to buy products made from such leather. However, speaking about food, it takes long time to become familiar with people as a food for human. My host mother was a vegetarian. According to her, the reason of that was for health. She said what livestock eat is what we eat, but we can’t know what they eat accurately. Also I have watched the movie about food. There was a man who had ingredient of corn in his hair though he didn’t eat corn. The cause of it was his meal. He ate cheap beef and its feed was genetically modified corn. As known by these fact, food have much influence for our body. Furthermore, recently, many people are becoming health-conscious. In such a circumstance, it’s not likely to spread artificial food immediately. For these reasons, I think biofabrication is very promising technique in respect of product like a handbag but not in food.