AP: US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat

[Cooked Crack]

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For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation’s restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves. 

 

The Agriculture Department gave the green light to Upside Foods and Good Meat, firms that had been racing to be the first in the U.S. to sell meat that doesn’t come from slaughtered animals — what’s now being referred to as “cell-cultivated” or “cultured” meat as it emerges from the laboratory and arrives on dinner plates. 

 

The move launches a new era of meat production aimed at eliminating harm to animals and drastically reducing the environmental impacts of grazing, growing feed for animals and animal waste.

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The companies received approvals for federal inspections required to sell meat and poultry in the U.S. The action came months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration deemed that products from both companies are safe to eat. A manufacturing company called Joinn Biologics, which works with Good Meat, was also cleared to make the products. 

 

Cultivated meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells that come from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a special bank of stored cells. In Upside’s case, it comes out in large sheets that are then formed into shapes like chicken cutlets and sausages. Good Meat, which already sells cultivated meat in Singapore, the first country to allow it, turns masses of chicken cells into cutlets, nuggets, shredded meat and satays. 

 

But don’t look for this novel meat in U.S. grocery stores anytime soon. Cultivated chicken is much more expensive than meat from whole, farmed birds and cannot yet be produced on the scale of traditional meat, said Ricardo San Martin, director of the Alt:Meat Lab at University of California Berkeley.

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The companies plan to serve the new food first in exclusive restaurants: Upside has partnered with a San Francisco restaurant called Bar Crenn, while Good Meat dishes will be served at a Washington, D.C., restaurant run by chef and owner Jose Andrés. 

 

Company officials are quick to note the products are meat, not substitutes like the Impossible Burger or offerings from Beyond Meat, which are made from plant proteins and other ingredients. 

 

Globally, more than 150 companies are focusing on meat from cells, not only chicken but pork, lamb, fish and beef, which scientists say has the biggest impact on the environment.

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Cost will be another sticking point. Neither Upside nor Good Meat officials would reveal the price of a single chicken cutlet, saying only that it’s been reduced by orders of magnitude since the firms began offering demonstrations. Eventually, the price is expected to mirror high-end organic chicken, which sells for up to $20 per pound. 

 

San Martin said he’s concerned that cultivated meat may wind up being an alternative to traditional meat for rich people, but will do little for the environment if it remains a niche product.

https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-lab-grown-cell-based-a88ab8e0241712b501aa191cdbf6b39a

 

[LadySkinsFan]

Nope nope nope.  My meager food $$ are spent on actual natural food. Notice I didn't say organic food. 

 

It's hot here so I making cold food like ratatouille, Greek green beans, vichyssoise, cold cereal, and the like. Cook once, eat multiple times.

[PleaseBlitz]

Where is the "**** YES" option in the poll?

[The Evil Genius]

It'd be ****ing hilarious if it tasted like steak. 

[Renegade7]

This may be only way to keep up with reality our current way of supplying meat is unsustainable...this or bugs, huh? Ok...

[PleaseBlitz]

13 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

It'd be ****ing hilarious if it tasted like steak. 

I mean, the first thing i thought of is I would love lab grown meat if they can make a close approximation of kobe beef and it isn’t $90/lb. 
 

My second thought was, why are people opposed to meat grown in a lab where the alternative is meat grown in a hen’s uterus. 

[Renegade7]

8 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

My second thought was, why are people opposed to meat grown in a lab where the alternative is meat grown in a hen’s uterus. 

 

Amazing what people will eat when they don't have to do the killing and cooking themselves...

[China]

Interesting that it had to go through both FDA and USDA approval.  I see it only took them seven months to get USDA approval after they got FDA approval:

 

 

[dfitzo53]

13 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

This may be only way to keep up with reality our current way of supplying meat is unsustainable...this or bugs, huh? Ok...

Yeah this is likely the future, at least if people want to keep eating meat. 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

Now all they got to do is figure out how to grow it with the 11 herbs and spices already built in and we talking.

Edited June 22, 2023 by CousinsCowgirl84

[The Evil Genius]

17 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

This may be only way to keep up with reality our current way of supplying meat is unsustainable...this or bugs, huh? Ok...

 

3 hours ago, dfitzo53 said:

Yeah this is likely the future, at least if people want to keep eating meat. 

 

Chapulines.

 

Potentially high lead content though. So that's a problem with eating insects. 

[ixcuincle]

Exciting news, and they will be serving it soon at Jose Andres restaurant in DC !

[TradeTheBeal!]

As long as the chickie nuggies taste like chickie nuggies, Imma be eating them.  Don’t care what they’re made of.

Edited June 22, 2023 by TradeTheBeal!

[Larry]

22 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said:

As long as the chickie nuggies taste like chickie nuggies, Imma be eating them.  Don’t care what they’re made of.

 

No one who eats chickie nuggies cares what they're made of.  

 

[Xameil]

1 hour ago, Larry said:

 

No one who eats chickie nuggies cares what they're made of.  

 

I would bet that lab grown meat for chickie nuggies is a step up from whats used now

[Captain Wiggles]

[philibusters]

As a vegetarian this would be a game changer for me.  I don't eat meat for moral reasons so if they can produce meat without there ever being animals, I would be happy to buy that (assuming its reasonably priced).

[PleaseBlitz]

2 hours ago, philibusters said:

As a vegetarian this would be a game changer for me.  I don't eat meat for moral reasons so if they can produce meat without there ever being animals, I would be happy to buy that (assuming its reasonably priced).

 

What if, just for fun, the scientists give the lab grown meat a face?

Edited June 22, 2023 by PleaseBlitz

[AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy]

23 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

What if, just for fun, the scientists give the lab grown meat a face?

You’re a monster. 

[Renegade7]

6 hours ago, TradeTheBeal! said:

As long as the chickie nuggies taste like chickie nuggies, Imma be eating them.  Don’t care what they’re made of.

 

I always laugh out how not self-aware fast food companies are when they rebrand their chicken nuggets as NOW with all white meat chicken...like, bruh, wtf were they made of before???

[Larry]

50 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

I always laugh out how not self-aware fast food companies are when they rebrand their chicken nuggets as NOW with all white meat chicken...like, bruh, wtf were they made of before???

Parts. 
 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2023 by Larry

[Captain Wiggles]

47 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

bruh, wtf were they made of before???

 

"Pink slime" until 2011. 😬

 

[China]

France makes fresh bid to ban meat names for plant-based food

 

France unveiled on Monday revised proposals banning the use of meat names like "steak" and "spare ribs" for plant-based food made in the country as it seeks to avoid "misleading claims" of some meat alternatives.

 

The first country in the European Union to attempt to impose such a restriction, France had already tried to pass such a measure in June last year but it was suspended by the country's highest administrative court a month later, which argued that it was too vague and the timing too short.

 

The global plant-based protein market has seen a sharp rise in recent years, mainly driven by increasing demand for environment-friendly and healthy food. The industry often uses references to meat products, fuelling anger among livestock farmers and meat processors in France, the EU's biggest agricultural producer.

 

The new draft decree, which only applies to products made and sold in France, bans a list of 21 meat names to describe protein-based products, including "steak", "escalope", "spare ribs", "ham" or "butcher".

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

If they started growing this "lab made meat" in France, would they also want to give it different names?

[PleaseBlitz]

Man, I would love to be the person responsible for naming plant-based, meat-like substances from scratch.  

[dfitzo53]

1 hour ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Man, I would love to be the person responsible for naming plant-based, meat-like substances from scratch.  

Let's hear 'em.