All Tomorrow’s Kitchens
A Milestone for Lab-Grown Chicken, Recycling Coffee Waste, and a Massive Farmer Strike in India
A weekly roundup of everything bringing humans closer to a food-secure future
All Tomorrow’s Kitchens, a weekly series from Future Human, rounds up advances in food and agricultural science, tech, business, and culture that are bringing all humans closer to a food-secure future.
Lab-grown chicken gets its wings
For all the talk about lab-grown meat, we sure haven’t eaten much of it. But that might soon change, thanks to a regulatory milestone just reached in Singapore. On Tuesday, the U.S. company Eat Just announced that its lab-grown “chicken bites” had passed the Singapore Food Agency’s safety review, and were deemed “safe and nutritious for human consumption.” The “no-kill” product, which looks just like a chicken nugget and is made without antibiotics, will be the first lab-grown meat to ever go on sale. It’s expected to be the first of many similar products to do so.
