The ick factor

What I talk about when I talk about our big questions for lab-grown meat, Sweetgreen's new robotic Infinite Kitchen, and recycling's microplastics problem.

How often do you pause before deciding what to eat? I’m not talking about the fraught decision making that comes when looking over an ambitious menu but the deliberation that occurs when shopping at the grocery store (reading a label) or maybe, which just happened to me, when your friend asks if you’re eating red meat. (I told her no, but that I was fin…