In November 2022, the FDA made a surprise announcement: It had no further questions about the safety of a lab-grown chicken product from Upside Foods, one of the largest startups attempting to produce marketable lab-grown meat. When compared to conventional meat products, best-case-scenario lab meat production could avoid many of the ethical and environmental issues that come with conventional meat …
This story is part of our series on the future of cultured and plant-based meat. Now there’s another group of innovators who hope a third realm of life — fungi — will be the next big weapon in the fight to wean us off conventional meat. The entrepreneurs using mushroom stems and roots and the threads that make up nature’s …
