SHANGHAI LIL NEVER ATE LAB-GROWN MEAT — SHE SAID THAT IT JUST WEREN’T NATURAL: Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. “As of this writing, Open Philanthropy has not referenced its groundbreaking findings on social media or its website, not even on its pages devoted to animal agriculture. Open Philanthropy declined to be interviewed for this story.”

The problem here isn’t that it’s not natural, it’s that the expense and difficulties involved are being wildly understated, presumably in an effort to hoover up grant money and investors.

Related: Scale-up economics for cultured meat.