States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an ‘or.’ … Read more

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

It has been a rocky year for plans for large-scale cultivated-meat production. In May 2022, another Californian startup, Eat Just, announced its plans to build up to 10 large bioreactors, each with a 250,000-liter capacity, with the bioreactor firm ABEC. The deal fell apart, with ABEC later filing an amended legal complaint in federal court … Read more

You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC, last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat Just’s director of global communications, Carrie Kabat, in an emailed statement to WIRED. “We plan to resume these dinners this year.” Good Meat/Eat Just’s chicken had also previously been on sale in Singapore, but sales there have … Read more

The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat

Almy says that the suggestion that ingesting immortalized cells could be linked to cancer in humans was “so ludicrous as to be laughable.” “So few people have had cultivated meat or have access to it that it feels like these things that are being raised are more fearmongering than anything else,” she says. “It feels … Read more

Jeweler Jean Dousset Says Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Identical To Natural Diamonds

Play video content TMZ.com News flash … lab-grown diamonds are REAL diamonds and there’s really no difference between man-made rocks and their natural counterparts … according to a famous jeweler. Jean Dousset, a descendant of Cartier founder Louis Francois Cartier, joined us on “TMZ Live” Friday and schooled us on lab-grown diamonds … explaining why … Read more