You're gonna need extra ranch for this.
Singapore's Food Agency has just approved "cultured chicken" to be sold as an ingredient in chicken nuggets.
Yeah, that's lab-grown meat.
This will be the first lab-grown meat that has received any kind of regulatory approval. And it comes from Eat Just, a US-based company that produces the "meat" using a process that is too appetizing not to describe.
Eat Just scientists start with muscle cell biopsies from live chickens, and then they supply the samples with plant-based nutrients in a 300-gallon bioreactor to help the tissue grow.
Josh Tetrick, Eat Just's chief executive was pumped about the announcement saying,
"This is a historic moment in the food system. We've been eating meat for thousands of years, and every time we've eaten meat, we've had to kill an animal—until now."
Here's what the meat looks like before leaving the lab.
