USDA allows lab-grown meat to be sold to US consumers – By Oliver Milman (The Guardian) / June 21, 2023
Approval means US becomes second country in the world, after Singapore, to allow sale of meat grown from animal cells
Lab-grown meat will be able to be sold to US consumers for the first time, with the federal government granting permission for two separate businesses to offer their chicken products to people.
Both Upside Foods and Good Meat said on Wednesday they had been given permission by the US Department of Agriculture to produce and sell chicken that has been grown from a cluster of sample animal cells in large metal vats.
The approval means that the US becomes just the second country in the world, after Singapore, to allow the sale of meat grown from animal cells, a breakthrough touted by the nascent industry as being better for both animals, which aren’t harmed in the process, and the environment.
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