The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently showed its support for meat grown in a lab.
The agency said that it considers chicken cultivated from cells as safe for humans to eat after a review of a chicken product from Upside Foods, which is a companyout of Berkeley, California. The FDA said they had “no further questions” about the safety claims that Upside Foods made. However, it will still need to get the sign-off from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) before it can be sold in this country. The USDA and FDA share the supervision of meat cultivated from cells.
Some might wonder what exactly lab-grown meat is. It is cultivated from animal cells, which Uma Valeti, the CEO of Upside Foods says are “like a starter dough.” Lab-grown meat is not vegetarian. The lab still sometimes slaughters animals or copies cells from a fertilized egg or living animal, but far fewer animals need to die to obtain the same amount of meat.
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