US Approves Sale of Cultivated Chicken, Opening Door to Lab-Grown Meat Industry

U.S. regulators approved the sale of chicken grown from animal cells in bioreactors, marking the first approval of cultivated meat.
Two California companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, received approval to sell their cultivated chicken products to restaurants and eventually supermarkets.
Cultivated meat is grown from animal stem cells without slaughtering animals, aiming to reduce environmental impacts of industrial animal agriculture.
Singapore was the only country to approve cultivated meat sales before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture granted approval.
While cultivated meat is currently more expensive to produce than conventional meat, companies aim to eventually sell at price parity as production scales up.