Lab-grown chicken meat disaster !

Upside Foods, a leader in the fake meat market and one of two companies allowed to sell cultured meat in the U.S., has failed to scale up its production to produce meaningful amounts of synthetic meat

Plagued by contamination issues, Upside had problems with rodent DNA found in one of its chicken cell lines

While parading its expensive stainless-steel bioreactors for the press, Upside is actually growing only small amounts of fake meat bits inside small, single-use plastic bottles 

Fake meat, presented as a solution to save the environment, may end up being worse for the planet than real meat

Lab-grown meat is often made using animal components, so it’s not really animal-free, and when Upside tested its fake meat for heavy metals, some samples contained 20 times more lead than conventional ground chicken

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