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0 December 11, 2020 15:31 by Alice Nott Phoebe Raine With 2020 being the year of dystopia becoming reality, Singapore’s decision to approve chicken meat grown in a lab poses some interesting questions about the future of feeding our growing population. ‘“No eyes or beak or anything, they don’t need those…this thing feels no pain”’ says a scientist in Atwood’s dystopian fiction Oryx and Crake, referring to the headless, pulsating “chicken” mass that makes “chickienobs”, a lab-created chicken product. When this book came out in 2003, the idea of chicken meat grown in labs was still virtually the stuff of speculation and fictional shock-factor. Now in 2020, fiction has become fact with great leaps forwards in growing meat in petri dishes and test tubes. ....