{"id":1953468,"date":"2023-06-21T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usda-approves-sale-of-lab-grown-meat\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:07:01","slug":"usda-approves-sale-of-lab-grown-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usda-approves-sale-of-lab-grown-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Approves Sale Of \u2018Lab-Grown\u2019 Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States Department of Agriculture announced<\/a> Wednesday it approved the sale of \u201clab-grown\u201d meat for commercial sale.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two California companies, Good Meat and Upside Foods, are now approved to sell chicken created from animal cells in the United States. The decision makes the U.S. only the second country in the world to allow<\/a> the commercial sale of lab-grown meat, which is also referred to as \u201ccultured\u201d and \u201ccell-cultivated\u201d meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis announcement that we\u2019re now able to produce and sell cultivated meat in the United States is a major moment for our company, the industry and the food system,\u201d Josh Tetrick, the CEO of Good Meat\u2019s parent company, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The FDA has already given the green light for lab-grown meat for the two companies, and the approval by the USDA means it can now be sold commercially, though the companies will not be bringing it to grocery stores yet due to high production costs. Just one other country, Singapore, allows the legal sale of lab-grown meat, while in March, Italy moved to ban the sale of it to protect its food heritage, according<\/a> to the BBC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lab product will be labeled as \u201ccell-cultivated chicken,\u201d CNBC notes. The companies argue that lab-grown meat is a more environmentally sustainable option than animals from farms and ranches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGOOD Meat is real meat, made without tearing down a forest or taking a life. We\u2019re the first and only company in the world to sell cultivated meat made from cells instead of slaughtered animals,\u201d Good Meat says on its website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis approval will fundamentally change how meat makes it to our table,\u201d Uma Valeti, CEO of Upside Foods, said. \u201cIt\u2019s a giant step forward towards a more sustainable future \u2014 one that preserves choice and life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

These statements come despite a preprint<\/a> study published in May, which hasn\u2019t been peer-reviewed, that found lab-grown meat may actually be worse for the environment than regular meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf companies are having to purify growth media to pharmaceutical levels, it uses more resources, which then increases global warming potential,\u201d lead author Derrick Risner from UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology said. \u201cIf this product continues to be produced using the \u2018pharma\u2019 approach, it\u2019s going to be worse for the environment and more expensive than conventional beef production.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lab-grown meat, which is not vegetarian, is cultivated<\/a> from animal cells, which Valeti says are \u201clike a starter dough.\u201d The cells are incubated and grown into masses of meat in steel tanks, then cut and made to look like traditional meat, according<\/a> to Fox Business. The product will reportedly cost upwards of $20 per pound when it comes to stores. Lab-grown meat is not the same as plant-based \u201cmeat\u201d products, such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Initially, two restaurants have partnered with the companies to serve the lab-grown food: Bar Crenn, a Japanese-style restaurant in San Francisco, will be serving the lab-grown meat from Upside Foods, and Good Meat\u2019s product will be sold at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, according to the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

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