Lab-grown meat industry makes progress but faces supply, public acceptance hurdles

A nugget made from lab-grown chicken meat is seen during a media presentation in Singapore on December 22, 2020. [AFP photo]

Singapore was the first country in the world to greenlight the sale of lab-grown meat, but even after nearly 2 years, the fledgling industry is still struggling with supply issues and hurdles such as public acceptance, experts say.

Lab-grown or cultivated meat is meat grown in a lab by extracting cells from animals and growing the muscles to eventually have the texture, nutrition and taste of meat from real-life animals.