🤔 Would you eat lab-grown meat?
The USDA just approved 2 companies to sell “chicken” that’s cultivated in a lab rather than coming from a live animal.
The companies (GOOD Meat and UPSIDE Foods) begin with stem cells taken from chickens and then grow them with nutrients in a bioreactor. These companies officially call it “cell-cultured” chicken.
Sound tasty??
You may have heard talking points in the news that this product is nutritionally equivalent to real chicken or that it will leave a smaller carbon footprint. But I think it raises more questions than answers. Like…
âť“ Does it actually provide the same nutrients as real meat?
âť“ Will it be digested in the same way or cause digestive problems?
âť“ Is there any chance it could trigger food reactions or allergies?
Lab-grown chicken will be sold in restaurants first—beginning in San Francisco and Washington, DC.
I’d love to know: Would you eat it?