Having spent my life in tech businesses, I've seen how innovation typically follows a pattern. First comes the breakthrough, then the skepticism, then gradual acceptance, and finally - it just becomes normal.
The first mobile phones were met with "Why would anyone need to make calls while walking?" Now we can't imagine life without smartphones.
Cultivated meat is following a similar path. The first reaction is usually "Growing meat in labs? That's not natural." But then, neither is most of our modern food production.
Think about it - traditional agriculture is essentially technology that's thousands of years old. We just don't see it that way because it's familiar.
The meat industry isn't "natural" either. It's highly industrialised, using selective breeding, antibiotics, and factory farming. We've just accepted it because it's what we know.
Cultivated meat isn't about making something artificial. It's about using new technology to make the same product more efficiently, more ethically.
Just like every other innovation that seemed strange at first, until it didn't.
