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

The latest version of GOOD Meat's cultivated chicken was served at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 7, 2022. [Eat Just, Inc.]

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.