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Lab-grown chicken made by Eat Just makers of the popular JUST Egg and JUST Mayo will be offered for the first time ever at 1880, a fine-dining restaurant in Singapore, this Saturday. The California brand’s revolutionary meat (called GOOD Meat Cultured Chicken) will star in a three course-meal inspired by cuisines from China, Brazil, and the United States the world’s top chicken-producing countries. “We are honored to host the global launch of Eat Just’s first cultured meat product,” 1880 founder Marc Nicholson said. “This is a revolutionary step towards solving climate change and creating the opportunity to feed the world without overwhelming the planet.”
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Eat Just Follows Regulatory Approval With Historic, First-Ever Sale of Cultured Meat
December 15, 2020 GMT
SINGAPORE (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 15, 2020
Eat Just, Inc., a company that applies cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods, today announced that on the heels of its historic regulatory approval for cultured chicken, it has made the first commercial sale of meat created directly from animal cells for human consumption to 1880, an establishment founded to inspire conversations that change the world. GOOD Meat Cultured Chicken will launch with 1880 this Saturday, December 19.
Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Will Make Its Restaurant Debut This Saturday Mike Pomranz
For cultured meat which has gone by many names including lab-grown meat, clean meat, or slaughter-free meat the question has not been “if” but “when.” The development of growing animal cells into edible meat has continued, only the timeline was uncertain. Back in 2016, an Israeli company called SuperMeat even took a guess, suggesting their lab-grown chicken would be available by July 2021. Turns out they weren’t far off, but they also weren’t the first ones to get there.
This weekend, Eat Just which until recently was best known for its plant-based Just Egg will become the first company in the world to have their cultured meat served commercially at a restaurant. Earlier this month, Eat Just claimed a world’s first after getting regulatory approval to sell its Good Meat Cultured Chicken in Singapore. Now, that cell-cultured meat will debut at Singapore’s 1880 restauran