Cell-cultured chicken coming to a store near you

By Melissa Gerr,

Published July 12, 2023 at 10:05 AM EDT

San Francisco based Upside Foods received USDA approval to produce cell-cultured meat and sell it in the US. Pictured: cultivated chicken salad. Photo: Upside Foods.

What’s your poultry preference? Soon, options will go beyond just roasted or fried. Upside Foods received USDA approval to sell its cell-cultivated chicken: grown in a lab, no animals harmed. We hear from Eric Schulze, Upside's vice president of Global Scientific and Regulatory Affairs. Plus, a group of Hopkins students is raising awareness about alternative protein production.

Links: Upside Foods, JHU Alternative Protein Project.

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Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'

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