Sure, not a fascimile. Who Framed Roger Rabbit had characters from competing studios. Apparently Steven Spielberg had enough clout that he was able to get cross licensing deals made.

Yup, like, what is it replacing? If it’s food that goes directly to humans, let’s not do that. If it’s corn for ethanol, that has little worth. Covering it with solar panels isn’t terrible by any means.

Need more Who Framed Roger Rabbit type work.

I see the point of plant based leather not as necessarily being great now, but as demonstrating that there is demand for R & D to make a product that can meet or surpass the quality of leather later.