This Singapore chicken dinner could start a revolution
A US 'cultured meat' company has received the green light to serve its chicken to diners. Is this one small step for animal-free meat, one giant leap for farmkind?
A chef prepares Eat Just chicken in the kitchens at Singapore's 1880 club.
It was a Saturday evening just before Christmas, and diners were sitting down at the swanky, avant-garde 1880 club in Singapore. But this was no ordinary meal out. The future of agriculture was on the menu.
For the first time anywhere in the world, a restaurant was legally permitted to serve “cultured meat”: chicken produced from cells in a lab, rather than raised on a farm. Singapore’s food regulator in December gave California-based alt-food company Eat Just the green light to sell the product commercially, and 1880 was the first customer.
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondentHans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com
