Best Of: What Is Cultivated Meat?
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Two food technology companies — UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat — are letting people try their cultivated meat. But you can't grab any off grocery shelves quite yet. For now, it's available to the public at Bar Crenn in San Francisco and China Chilcano in Washington D.C.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service approved their labels and the Food and Drug Administration left with no questions after they did a pre-market consultation with the companies on their product.
We discuss how this meat is grown and its potential impact on the meat industry.
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| 0:17.3 | Listen now to the Code Switch Podcast from NPR. When I say cultivated meat, what comes to mind? Is it hard to picture? What will give you a |
| 0:35.4 | hint? It's not harvested on a farm. It's harvested in a lab. Companies have |
| 0:40.6 | been working on it for years and this summer two of them got the green light to push some of their finished product out the door. |
| 0:47.0 | In a few years we might be able to grab it off grocery shelves. |
| 0:50.0 | Some of you shared what you thought about the idea of cultivated meat. |
| 0:53.2 | I think this idea of growing meat in a lab is fairly repugnant, personally to me. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah, so I think that I don't have a problem with a lab grown, I guess, chicken. |
| 1:05.0 | And I am all for growing this stuff in the lab. |
| 1:09.0 | Supposedly it tastes really great and also no animals are harmed in the making of this product. |
| 1:15.0 | I think it's fantastic. I can't wait until I can buy it. |
| 1:19.0 | Lab grown food is something that I have no interest in whatsoever. I rather do it the traditional way. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, lab-grown, it's a no for me. |
| 1:31.0 | For now, Lab-Cultivated Chicken is only being sold in two places across the country |
| 1:36.5 | from the company's upside foods and good meat. |
| 1:39.7 | At one restaurant in San Francisco and one restaurant right here in Washington DC. |
| 1:44.0 | One of our WAMU Newsroom reporters got the chance to try it and we'll hear all about it |
| 1:49.4 | and how it tastes after the break. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the one a |
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