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Companies Race To Introduce Lab-Grown Meat

Upside Foods is on a mission to sell chicken grown from animal stem cells, first in the United States and then globally. Company executives, including a cardiologist who helped start it, hope other foods, including beef, duck and lobster, won’t be far behind. “Tissue engineers and scientists in several countries are trying to find a commercially viable way to transform animal stem cells into a marbled Wagyu steak, briny oysters or sushi-grade salmon,” per The New York Times. “Their work is fed by nearly $3 billion in investments.”

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