Editor's choice: Will cultivated meat survive?

Sometimes, when people find out what I do, they get a little aggressive.

"Do you really think it's healthy to eat that science-experiment crap," is a question I've heard a few times, and it took me a minute to realize it was rhetorical. The question asker typically doesn't care what I have to say in response.

Usually, I note that reporting on the sector is my job, not my fervent life's…