News Lab-grown chicken is one step closer to being sold in the US

[The Helper]

Americans are one step closer to being able to buy chicken grown from animal cells, also known as lab-grown meat.

Good Meat, the developer of such a chicken product, announced Tuesday that it has received a so-called “no questions” letter from the Food and Drug Administration. That letter states that the administration is satisfied that the product is safe to sell in the United States. The FDA issued a similar letter to another company that makes meat from cultured chicken cells, Upside Foods, in November.

That’s a big step, but it doesn’t mean shoppers will be able to try the product just yet. To get the green light to sell to consumers, both companies need the go-ahead from the US Department of Agriculture.

The FDA’s letter “clears a crucial step in bringing Good Meat to restaurants and retail in the US,” Good Meat said in a statement Tuesday, adding that it “is now working with the US Department of Agriculture on necessary approvals.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/business/lab-grown-meat-fda/index.html

 

[jonas]

Cool. I wonder what will happen with the fake meat and conventional meat industries as this happens.

 

[The Helper]

No animals are killed or suffer in this method Plant based meat has to be grown in fields which kills all the life on the ground where that happens and takes chemicals.

 

[jonas]

Animals die no matter what we do, it's just a question of how many and how intentional.

The energy for the lab and nutrients for the cells must also come from somewhere. Coal, concrete, mining, plants, etc.

All of that has some environmental impact. All we can do is minimize our impact as much as feasible.