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It's Thursday, November 17th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The FDA has given approval for the first

time to a lab-grown meat. Plus, another company is genetically modifying plants to work as

superpowered air purifiers. And 500 new words like bay and sub-tweets have been added

to the official Scrabble Dictionary. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

I've mentioned lab grown or cultivated meat a few times on this podcast. That is, meat made from

real animal cells, but which doesn't require the slaughter of those animals. Well, in a first,

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to one company's lab-grown chicken.

The company, California-based upside foods, will still need to get additional clearance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,

and there are a number of other hurdles to clear before lab-grown meat reaches consumers,

but this is still a major turning point. The only other nation that had previously given regulatory approval to cultivated meat was Singapore,

where U.S.-based brand, Good Meat, part of the company Eat Just, was greenlit two years ago.

According to Vox, that product has been sold at a loss in a high-end restaurant and hotel.

Will it be different in the U.S.?

While the technology holds great promise, there are a lot of hurdles that still need

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