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🦧 it's chicken, but not dead

Ape of Omaha
Nov 21, 2022
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🦧 it's chicken, but not dead

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it's chicken, but not dead

"our chicken looks, cooks, and tastes like chicken because it is real chicken" is what it says on upside foods' website, a california-based company that makes meat from cultured cells

  • their meat is not a result of “slaughter of live animals”

  • instead, a small sample of healthy chicken cells are taken, placed in a nutrient-rich environment, and grown into pure clean meat

 

fda said it’s okay for now

  • last wednesday, the us food and drug administration announced that it has completed the “first pre-market consultation of a human food made from cultured animal cells“

  • regarding upside foods’ lab-grown chicken meat, the fda said that it has “no further questions at this time about the firm’s safety conclusion”

    • a.k.a. huge sign (and a first) that lab-grown meat may no longer be a vc-backed theoretical idea, but a real product sold to the public

 

what now?

two baby steps (not so easy regardless) until lab-grown meat becomes commercialized in the us (at least upside foods’)

  • a grant of inspection from the us department of agriculture on upside's production facilities

  • a usda mark of inspection of the final product itself

  • imo: upside's gotten the huge hurdle out the way, and since the fda's said the meat is safe to consume, it's very likely that the remaining steps won't cause much trouble

 

public companies aggressively pursuing "clean" meat: TSN 0.00 (tyson foods), BYND 0.00 (beyond meat)

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GRND 0.00 (grindr) went public and shot up on its first day of trading (click image)

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