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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Usda allows lab grown meat to be sold to us consumers - What They Never Told You

A meal made of cultured chicken by Good Meat, one of the two businesses granted permission to sell lab-grown meat.
A meal made of cultured chicken by Good Meat, one of the two businesses granted permission to sell lab-grown meat. Photograph: GOOD Meat/AFP/Getty Images

Lab-grown meat will be able to be sold to US consumers for the first time, with the federal government granting permission for two separate businesses to offer their chicken products to people.

Both Upside Foods and Good Meat said on Wednesday they had been given permission by the US Department of Agriculture to produce and sell chicken that has been grown from a cluster of sample animal cells in large metal vats.

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