For the first time ever, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has given two companies the green light to produce and sell lab-grown chicken meat across the country. Harvest Public Media reports that it could still take years before people can buy cultivated meat at grocery stores. Cultivated meat is expensive to make and labs aren’t able to produce the billions of pounds of meat Americans consume every year. So, the recently approved companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, only planto serve the new food in exclusive restaurants.
Upside Foods Chief Operating Officer, Amy Chen, says there’s still a long road ahead to make the company’s cultivated chicken products affordable and available, saying “as they launch, they will be at a premium, but over time, as they continue to scale and as they build out the supply chain and operate at larger scales, the cost will come down. This will then allow more consumers to have access to the products. She says getting people familiarized with cultivated meat and comfortable eating it is another long-term goal.
