Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

Meat grown from cell cultures has been touted as a salve for global warming. But a lot of energy goes into raising those cells.

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It'll at least help my conscience
- Have a read of how Fetal Bovine Serum is produced.
  
  This isn't really fair, there's plenty of ways to make it without fetal bovine serum.
  
  Nope, but I get the feeling I'm not gonna like it
People will literally do anything but eat beans.
I don't understand the reluctance from a lot of people with this if it's the exact same as 'real' meat. Once the price drops down and is available in the UK I'd be interested in mostly opting for this since i've never been able to make the switch to vegan/veggie
https://youtu.be/V0zCf4Yup34

Relevant video about lab meat. Tldr it will not scale enough to make a difference.
I don't see how it can be worse. "Energy to create the nutrients and maintain temperature for the cells" is something both the chicken and the lab have to spend. I'm happier to have a lab create meat from the cells up than farmers doing their best to create sacks of muscle that can't stand up with a poor little head poking out the top, "full-grown" and killed in six weeks. Both are working to be more efficient, but it doesn't look as good on a living being.
- Neither system is good imo, that's why I think we should look at plant based meat alternatives instead, or just eat plants

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