Thursday, February 18, 2021
M-E-A-T has become a complicated word. A variety of alternative meat products are on the market or in development. Plant-based meat substitutes are already commonplace in our grocery stores and restaurants. Some of these plant-based substitutes can look much like meat from livestock. However, cultured meats - “meat” created using animal cells - has been created and may soon be widely available. Cultured meats, unlike the plant-based meat substitutes, can take cells from living animals and then grow those cells to create meat products which do not require the slaughter of animals. A number of companies around the world are working to develop cultured beef, chicken, pork, fish, seafood, etc., and to bring those products to market.
Eat Beyond or the
Company ), an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that its portfolio company, San Francisco-based
Eat Just Inc. (
Eat Just ), is the world s first company to have its lab-grown meat served in a restaurant.
Eat Just is a food tech company that produces meat and egg substitutes, and recently became the first company approved to sell its lab-grown chicken product, GOOD Meat Cultured Chicken, in Singapore. Singapore is the first government to allow the sale of cultured meat.
The chicken will be served at restaurant 1880 in Singapore as a part of a trio of sample dishes that will sell for approximately $23.
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.
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Chicken bites made from lab-grown cultured chicken developed by Eat Just is pictured in this handout photo. Eat Just, Inc./Handout via REUTERS
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SINGAPORE: San Francisco-based Eat Just said Singapore will be its Asia headquarters and potentially its global manufacturing hub, the meat and egg substitute maker’s chief executive and co-founder Josh Tetrick said on Monday (Dec 21).