Ready for a ‘cultured chicken cell material’ sandwich? FDA approval means it’s probably on the way (with a better name)

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The way you eat chicken might not change, but how your chicken is produced may soon look unrecognizable.

For the first time, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled that a lab-grown meat—Upside Foods' cultivated chicken—is safe to eat, calling it “cultured chicken cell material" with “characteristics of muscle and connective tissue.”