Lab-Grown Meat Has FDA Approval — Nobody Asked the Part of Your Brain That Knows the Difference

In 2023, the FDA and USDA jointly approved the sale of cultivated 

chicken — meat grown from animal cells in bioreactor facilities, 

without slaughter — for human consumption in the United States. 

UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat became the first companies authorized to 

sell lab-grown animal protein commercially.

The coverage was celebratory in most outlets. The framing was sustainability, 

innovation, animal welfare. The Silicon Valley investment thesis — that this 

technology can eventually scale to replace conventional animal agriculture —

was presented as the story.

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SOURCE LINK: https://www.fda.gov/food/human-food-made-cultivated-animal-cells