I'm Elizabeth Hotson and in today's Business Daily, we'll be asking why Singapore is proving to be fertile ground for cell-grown meat.

Singapore is a country where society moves very quickly.

We hope that Singapore will be the place for culture meat.

And how some rather expensive chicken nuggets could be the new frontier in food innovation.

We manufacture the meat in a way that is somewhat similar to how you might brew beer through a culturing process.

The end result is real chicken.

You don't need to kill an animal.

The chicken is not dying.

And you can get an

unlimited amount of meat. This is Business Daily from the BBC.

The chicken nugget isn't usually thought of as being at the cutting edge of innovation. But in December 2020, a decision made by Singapore's food agency made science fiction a reality,

because the agency gave the green light to the sale of chicken nuggets made from meat grown in a lab from

animal cells. Cultivated meat actually became a reality back in 2013 in a lab overseen by Mark

Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He and his team, well, grew a burger. It

cost $300,000 to make, but it proved that cell-grown meat was

possible. Here's Professor Post talking through the process. So what I'm holding in my hand is a

culture flask with cells, just a few stem cells from cows, and we are going to make a billion cells.

And we take all these cells and make small muscle tissues out of them, a couple of

millimeters wide and a couple of centimeters long.

And this is already the muscle tissue.

And then we take all these small tissues to produce a hamburger.

Seven years on, the decision made by Singapore marks the first time that cell-grown meat products

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