December 28, 2020
Chicken bites made from lab-grown cultured chicken developed by Eat Just.
Reuters
Start-ups and investors in the lab-grown meat segment received a massive boost last month when Singapore approved San Francisco-based Eat Just’s cell-based chicken bites.
1880, a members-only restaurant in downtown Singapore, became the first eatery in the world to serve Eat Just’s lab-grown meat last week , a development that industry players hope will lead to more jurisdictions allowing the sale of such meat products as early as 2021.
Among them is Carrie Chan Kai Yi, the co-founder of Avant Meats, Hong Kong’s first lab-grown meat start-up. Chan had expected the first regulatory approvals in 2022.
Fact-check: Is the Texas oil and gas industry 35% of the state economy?
PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly True
Here s why: Texas’ oil and gas sector took a tumble in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic was compounded by a Saudi Arabia-Russia price war that further devastated the global oil market.
In May, two weeks after crude oil prices turned negative for the first time in history, Texas Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick spoke with the Texas Tribune giving updates on how the industry was handling the downturn.
“Last year, [oil and gas] was about 35% of the state s economy . and so [because this industry] is down . it s gonna affect everything,” Craddick said.