Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Set to Hit Grocery Stores, Restaurants this Year
As soon as regulators from the US Department of Agriculture decide how to label ‘cultivated’ meat for public sale and inspect facilities that produce it, the lab-grown meat will be available in grocery stores and restaurants.
Upside Foods, a California company, gained approval for its product after the FDA said it had evaluated the information submitted by Upside and it had “no further questions at this time about the firm’s safety conclusion.”
It appears there was no independent testing.
A professor from UC Davis said that cells used to create meat in a lab can technically be labeled pre-cancerous, but it would be “virtually impossible” to contract cancer from eating another animal, even if the meat contained cancer.
Regulators from the US Department of Agriculture are now deciding how to label meat ‘cultivated’ in a laboratory for public sale and inspect facilities that produce it.
The guidelines are expected sometime this year — a final hurdle before the products can hit store shelves.
Cultivated, or cultured-cell, meat is grown in energy intensive steel bioreactors from animal stem cells that are fed a mixture of vitamins, fats, sugars and oxygen.
The process results in real meat tissue without having to raise or slaughter an animal.
Good Meat was also approved by the FDA without questions.
Upside has attracted hing-profile financing from Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Whole Foods founder John Mackey.
UPSIDE says it can produce 50,000 pounds of cultivated chicken a year using current technology in its $50-million facility.
Valeti said Upside will need significant additional investment to scale up to 400,000 pounds a year — but that’s the goal.
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Isn’t chicken fowl, not meat? In any case, I wouldn’t trust it. It’s a synthetic substance grown by unnatural processes, with all the uncertainty, and tampering that involves.
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herb
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Stay far far far away from all this alternative lab grown poisons because that’s exactly what they are .
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Herb,
Were you aware of this?
“George Washington Carver (c. 1864[1] – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.[2] He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century.
While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve types of soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life.[3] The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. Although he spent years developing and promoting numerous products made from peanuts, none became commercially successful.[4]”. (Wikipedia)
have a good day
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Len Winokur
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Kentucky Fake Chicken.
More serious (and seriously), is which nutrients that would be present in pasture-raised chickens are lacking in its lab-grown mimic.
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