Selective Efficiency Hampton Creek, the artificial foods maker, has announced a new product. It had earlier purchased its own fake mayonnaise from grocery stores, purportedly as a food safety initiative but investigated as a possible effort to sway its stock price. The company says it will produce a cultured meat because “Animal agriculture is a relatively inefficient way….” It is true that Mother Nature does not produce “efficiently” solely for human benefit, and that is why humans have been intentionally modifying plants and animals for thousands of years. What is notable is that Hampton Creek’s first product will be simulated poultry, which is perhaps the most efficient livestock product in the mark...