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Tech expert shares opinion after trying chicken-like meat grown in a lab
TEDs Chris Anderson was lucky enough to try some lab-grown chicken meat which he described as the future and positively succulent.
Though lab-grown meat began back in the 90s, the industry saw a massive increase in success in 2013 when a lab-grew cow for a staggering $250,000. The business has grown since then, and while its still got a ways to go, the future is looking lab-grown and yummy.�Is this the food of the future?
The meat looked good
Chris, known most for his work at TED, took to Twitter on Tuesday following a dinner party with a rather unique meal choice. You see, rather than chop up an animal, his party was served lab-grown chicken from Upside Foods and its CEO and founder, Uma Valeti.�
On Twitter, he explained: Last night I was lucky to be among the first group in New York to get to taste chicken grown from a droplet of muscle cells. It was… DELICIOUS.� Succulent, moist, the right texture. Chicken as it should be.� Even though full commercialization is a way off, it made me excited for the future.
After some slight slander at the New York Times scathing commentary, Chris highlighted the facilities at Upside Foods and how they are starkly different from usual meat factories.�
They’re housed in glass. Nothing to hide.� Inside are large, clean metal containers for growing this meat, and growing it in half the time it takes for modern, artificially inflated chickens to grow, he wrote. Those chickens, by contrast, are not grown behind glass. They’re shielded inside closed-off massive meat factories. And for a reason. If we could see the hell-hole of cages, feathers, beaks, chickenshit, bird-flu, antibiotics and, worst of all, brains tortured with a short but horrifying life of suffering, we’d throw up before downing our next drumstick.
Though options like Vegetarianism and Veganism are always an option, Chris admitted to loving meat and wanting it in his future. But that doesnt mean the future cant still be different.
And last night I saw a glimpse of how that can happen in a way that will be both delicious and kind — to our fellow creatures, and to the planet, he added.
He concluded by applauding the visionary company for their work and also speculating about the shining future for humankind.�
Not everyone is game for lab chicken meat
Despite the glowing review from a tech giant that pioneers visionary ideas, the rest of social media was not convinced.
One person wrote: I can buy chicken grown from two cells at the grocery store.
This is not food and I am not a science experiment, another said, while a third hit back with, In case you hadn’t heard, there are things called chickens and eggs which taste great.
