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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Jessica Shuran Yu

Only one restaurant in Texas sells lab-grown meat. Lawmakers banned it anyway.

Cows feed on grass and food pellets at Powell's ranch in Cedar Creek, on March 28, 2021.
A cow fed on grass and food pellets at Powell's ranch in Cedar Creek on March 28, 2021. (Credit: Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune)

Lab-grown meat isn’t being sold in Texas grocery stores or featured on most restaurant menus. In July, Austin sushi restaurant Otoko began putting Wildtype’s cultivated salmon on its menu, making it the first and only restaurant in Texas to sell a lab-grown product.

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