Lab-Grown Chicken Meat Goes on Sale

The first sale of laboratory-produced meat has been approved in Singapore (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time). There is just one item, namely 'Chicken Bites' from the US company Eat Just. The 'meat' is cultured in large reactor vats, using cells taken from chicken biopsies. The cultures are supplied with nutrients entirely from plant sources and 'no chickens are harmed in their production'. The 'Chicken Bites' are currently much more expensive than similar items made from actual chickens. It is claimed, however, that they will eventually prove much cheaper. Similar exercises are underway to do the same for beef, lamb and pork products. If the laboratory-grown meat proves popular (I suspect that it currently largely has novelty value), it will remove a need to kill so many animals for human food. It will also have considerable environmental benefits, as farmed animals produce very substantial amounts of 'greenhouse gases'and organic waste. Of course, if humans could be entirely weaned off meats, the benefits would be even greater (culturing meat in the laboratory, has avoidable energetic costs).