Johannesburg – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved two companies to start producing and selling “meat” made in laboratories.
Almost as unbelievable as the nursery rhyme about a “cow jumping over the moon” and a “dish running away with the spoon” the lab-made chicken meat will soon be available in restaurants in San Francisco and Washington, DC.
The “cultivated” meat is grown from cell-based proteins in beer brewery-like vats rather than being sourced from animals.
CNN reports that the USDA approval granted earlier this week is for cultivated chicken that’ll be produced by two companies, Upside Foods, and Good Meat.
Plant-based egg substitute maker Eat Just owns Good Meat and its products are already being sold in Singapore.
Proponents of lab-grown meat point to two positives
Good Meat says it’s a more humane way to eat meat, pitching it as “meat without slaughter.”
Advocates also say cultivated meat is better for the environment because it reduces the need for greenhouse gas-emitting animal agriculture.
