Andrew C. Revkin of the New York Times would never be mistaken for anything other than what he is -- someone who is worried about the environment and hasn't quite bought in to the techno-optimist vision of what we're going to do about it. Because this is his blog, all those assumptions are built in. That said, he does a good job of being transparent as a journalist -- his reporting of the conference is brief but honest, and the experts he consults provide perspective he himself could not. He shows some skepticism, but nothing on the order of what we would see from other thinkers who might view the entire premise of lab-grown meat preposterous.

This story asks a lot of questions but doesn't give me all the answers. How does manufacturing meat work? Also what are we going to do with the animals? We need animals to help the ecosystem but we can't have 30 billion cows on the planet if we aren't planning to eat some of them.

This article seems to be more of a follow-up piece, which is why I can understand how unanswered questions can be raised. But overall, I think that this article raises good questions and debate on manufactured meat.