A Step Too Far: U.S. Approves Sale of Lab-Grown Chicken Meat in Unsettling Precedent
Noodle bowl with lab-grown chicken (Source: UPSIDE Foods)
In an unprecedented move that could fundamentally reshape the very concept of the food industry, U.S. regulators have approved the sale of “lab-grown” chicken meat.
On Wednesday, the Agriculture Department gave the go-ahead to two California-based companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, to bring their cell-cultivated meat to the nation’s restaurant tables and, eventually, supermarket shelves.
The companies have been racing to be the first in the U.S. to sell meat that doesn’t come from slaughtered animals. They’ve branded this controversial new product as “cell-cultivated” or “cultured” meat.
“This announcement that we’re now able to produce and sell cultivated meat in the United States is a major moment for our company,
