Yes, but will the Vegans eat it? Their only claim was that meat is taken from killing or harming life. :)
I'm totally in favor of artificial products like these though. Just have to make sure it is well tested to make sure there are no long term implications from consumption of this.

I doubt vegans or nutritarians will eat this frankenfood. Organics actually do not wear the soil down it is the heavily laden pesticide and herbicides that tire and kill soil. Eating meat does come with a high price of cattle using too much water. I personally think food in its natural form is the way it should be. Stop fixing what's not broken! I noticed no one mentioned what this frankenburger is made from? I'm sure it's right up there with The Japanese Crap burger http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20072270-71/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/ People that work in labs should never be allowed to mess with the food chain. Our bodies can not digest or recognize this synthetic crap and that is why there is so much obesity and Cancer.

@soil n green
"I noticed no one mentioned what this frankenburger is made from? "
actually they did:
“Our burger is made from muscle cells taken from a cow. We haven’t altered them in any way. For it to succeed it has to look, feel and hopefully taste like the real thing.”

Cost wise comparing this to other sources of protein - would of been good to have actually compared this to fly larvae protein burghers etc Would the food situation ever get so bad to the point of the resyk (2000AD - Mega City food factories - recycling corpses into protein) - guess this is always an option - but would need to also look at recycling waste better. Becomming a cannibal and eating faeces doe not sound so appealing, but I guess it is all a source of potential food components.

Presumably the burger is replicated bovine muscle tissue.....in which case it will have better contents than ANY fast food burger. A recent study concluded that fast food burgers contain between3% and 16% actual meat. After water, the rest of the ingredients don't bear thinking about.

This is the future. Car vs Horse? Car wins! The exact replication of tissue for food is only a matter of time. Chicken, duck, beef, pork, buffalo, moose, bear, horse... and variations of flavor. Corn fed. Grass fed...
Having worked on my Grandfather's ranch, picking out a cow to kill, was interesting in a disturbing sort of way. Sending Bessy to the slaughter house, well, well how indescribable. Some I guess get a kick out of this. You find them everywhere. I did not. Our grass fed cattle were ahead of the mass corn fed, steroid, medicated beasts, but still.
So here, is the control issue. Growing tissue, you can have complete control vs the Mystery Meat that so often is in your grocery store. "Franken Meat" need not be constructed to kill the consumer. Frankly I am more worried by the greed of the meat industry and Mad Cow problems. Very nasty this problem.
"I'll take two pounds of Franken Grass Nourished Ground Beef please, oh, and the Missus wants a pound & a half of Franken Smoke Roasted Turkey Breast, thinly sliced."

@Soil n Green "I noticed no one mentioned what this frankenburger is made from? " - from what the article says, cultured myosatellite cells from the muscle tissue of the cow; I am not sure of the "nutrient solution" they use. Elsewhere, I heard that beet juice, saffron (which is quite expensive I thought), caramel and bread crumbs is added. I don't necessarily think they are using synthetic crap but rather redefining the idea of 'making dinner.' I personally would choose to occasional have the real thing.

Seeing as there is a plethora of problems with our currently existing "engineered" food, in comparison with natural, organic food. Also, I've seen Eureka.. I have a natural hesitation about such meats. Anyway, that said, the science fan in my has a little curiosity about this, though I still have massive doubts that this is even halfway a good idea. The patty doesn't even look right, imo.

Soil; Read much? It was made of cultured cow muscle cells. Colored with beet juice. Doh.
As far as "improving animal welfare", that would start with the death of all the cattle it replaced. Most cattle are alive only to feed us, and if they were unnecessary, they'd be disposed of.

If it's going to have any natural flavor at all, it's going to need at least a little bit of fat. Fat provides much of the flavor that red meat lovers love.