And some members of the general public, too, are squeamish about cell-cultured meat.
Caution isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but these critiques of cell-cultured meat are just thinly disguised neophobia — people just feel it is “unnatural.” Cell-cultured meat indeed comes from labs, not farms.
To no one’s surprise, cell-cultured meat also faces criticism from some animal rights activists, albeit for a very different reason: because cell cultivation requires starter cells taken from actual animals, cell-cultured meat isn’t completely cruelty-free.
And with time, cell-cultured meat may become nutritionally superior to meat from slaughtered animals anyway.
No, cell-cultured meat, as we currently know it, isn’t perfect.