"US Approves Cultivated Chicken as First 'Lab-Grown' Meat"

The US Agriculture Department has approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, to offer "lab-grown" meat to restaurants and eventually supermarkets. The move aims to eliminate harm to animals and reduce the environmental impact of traditional meat production. The companies plan to serve the new food first in exclusive restaurants, as cultivated chicken is much more expensive than meat from whole, farmed birds and cannot yet be produced on the scale of traditional meat.