Singapore Allows Selling Of Lab-grown Chicken
Singapore becomes the first government to allow the sale of cultured meat after approving American firm, Eat Just Inc., a maker of meat and egg substitutes to sell its laboratory-created chicken in that country.
The product will be sold as nuggets and will be available at premium chicken prices when it goes on sale “in the very near term”.
The product, created from animal cells without the slaughter of any chickens, will debut in Singapore under the GOOD Meat brand as a chicken bite with breading and seasoning in a single restaurant.
In a recent interview, Eat Just Chief Executive Officer Josh Tetrick said the company is buying more equipment to expand sales to other restaurants and eventually grocery stores. Tetrick added:
We want Singapore to be the focus of our manufacturing globally. They’re just really forward-thinking in building an enabling environment for this kind of work…
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I would imagine what will happen is the US, western Europe and others will see what Singapore has been able to do, the rigours of the framework that they put together.
And I would imagine that they will try to use it as a template to put their own framework together.
Demand for alternatives to regular meat is surging due to concerns about health, animal welfare and the environment.
More: Al Jazeera; Sky News
