Not hardly, not yet. It's the aspiration, not the reality.

Also, you might ask yourself why you would charge a food company with adding a nutritionally irrelevant and structurally problematic component with profound disease liability which has multiple highly distasteful compounds into a taste-tested product.

Something went reeeeeally wrong with your thought processes there.

Far more likely--if you even worked there, which at this point I think readers should doubt, given your farcical suspicions against the CEO--is that the unpleasant taste is a result of some components being produced in E. coli, a human gut bacterium that is extremely widely used in research because it's easy to grow, transform, etc.. Inadequate purification could result in various unpleasant compounds (with lovely names like cadaverine and putrecine--yes, these are real things!) remaining in the (sterile) resulting product.

Most cell culture today requires something like bovine serum to make cells grow, which is really problematic if you're trying to grow cells without cows. Making a serum analog from E. coli and/or other bacteria is a reasonable thing to try to do. But bacteria smell icky.