That’s why I find the idea of lab-grown meat particularly fascinating. Lab-grown meat, to many people, intuitively feels unnatural, like a bad science experiment. Lab-grown meat, to many people, intuitively feels unnatural, like a bad science experiment. He says that there are a lot of misconceptions about cultivated meat production. I bring up the visceral reactions of the people I’ve spoken to about eating lab-grown meat in preparation for our conversation.