Lab-grown chicken gets US approval

Lab to table. We’ve been hearing about this since the 90s. It won’t be so novel in the near future especially if the benefits are real. Can this help world food inequities once there is mass production? What are your thoughts? https://lnkd.in/gSsDGzdb #meat #tech #foodtech #food

A big day for cell-based meat as both Eat Just and Upside Foods get their USDA approvals. Menu placements are coming soon for both of them, with Chef Jose Andres in DC for Eat Just and Chef Dominique Crenn in San Francisco for Upside. But mass production, economic viability and environmental bonafides have yet to be proven. So stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/echcHWHt

Regulators just gave two companies the green light to start selling lab-grown meat in the US for the first time today. It's a huge step for the cultivated meat industry, which many hope can provide an alternative to animal agriculture (which is frankly a bit of a climate nightmare). Check out the full story for more on what this means and what's next! ?? https://lnkd.in/eM-zsEX8

GOOD Meat and UPSIDE Foods are the first companies to get U.S. regulators' approval for their cell-cultivated meat, and both have plans to bring it to consumers' plates soon. But even after clearing regulatory hurdles, both companies have a long road ahead before their products can become mainstream.

Well, it really does taste like chicken. How about a plate of cultivated cells? The U.S. is now the second country in the world where cultivated meat is available to consumers. While this may bring a new product to market, the bigger goal is to eliminate harm to animals and drastically reducing the environmental impacts of grazing, growing feed for animals and animal waste. Leg or thigh? Fried or baked? How about steel tanked? The cell-cultivated or meat?are grown in steel tanks using cells that come from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a special bank of stored cells. From there, they're then formed into shapes like chicken cutlets and sausages. They say it's still finger lickin' good. Apparently, the faux chicken looks, cooks, smells and most importantly, tastes like any other pan-fried poultry. For now, these fine, featherless friends are only available at select restaurants, and likely years before they make an appearance in grocery stores. You can still have it your way, just different. Whether you're into this new fowl is beside the point. Like plant-based products before it, the cultivated meat is intended to address the increasing environmental issues Mother Earth faces. Traditional meat production is damaging to the planet, but I'm pretty sure most meat-eating consumers prefer an alternative that doesn’t require giving up real meat all together https://lnkd.in/grEA9pE2 #chicken #food #foodsupply #unitedstates #environment #restaurants

?? HISTORY. Congratulations UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat on earning approval to serve cultivated meat. People in the US are about to experience the meat they love, but much better for the planet! #AltProteins https://lnkd.in/dpEvvEtZ

It’s official! All the steps from FDA to USDA and FSIS were successfully completed and GOOD Meat cultivated chicken is cleared for sale and consumption in the United States. It’s quite a historical milestone for our team and for the cellular agriculture industry after many years of hard work and resilience. I’m incredible proud of our entire team that put in the work for the last 5+ years to make this happen. I also want to extend my greetings to Upside Foods for their clearance, I’m sure they’re also celebrating. Well deserved! #cultivatedmeat

Cultivated meat is legal in the United States! USDA issued grants of inspection this morning to UPSIDE Foods and Eat Just, Inc. for their cultivated chicken. For my story in Food Dive, I talked to Amy Chen at Upside Foods and Josh Tetrick at Eat Just about what this means to the industry. “Everything has changed,” Chen told me. “Everything about the way food makes it to the table and how meat makes it to the table is about to be different." Tetrick, whose GOOD Meat chicken has been on the market in Singapore since late 2020, said he's been asked repeatedly when cultivated meat will be available in the United States. Now, he has an answer. The approval “further legitimizes cultivated meat as an industry, as a technology that has now been approved for production and sale right here, in my home," he said. "It’s an awesome moment." #foodtech #cultivatedmeat #usda #fda