“The most common response we get is, ‘Oh, it tastes like chicken.’”

Amy Chen, Upside Foods’ chief operating officer, regarding the company’s development and approval by the U.S. Agricultural Department to sell lab-grown chicken meat. Cultivated meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells that come from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a special bank of stored cells. “Cultured” meat is much more expensive than meat from whole, farmed birds and cannot yet be produced on the same mass scale, but advocates celebrate the development as a way to eliminate harm to animals and reduce environmental impacts of raising animals for food. (Associated Press — June 21, 2023)