Oct. 3, 2022 — The idea is nearly a hundred years in the making. None other than Winston Churchill envisioned an alternative to traditional meat production when he wrote in 1931, “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”
Churchill’s poultry example would prove prophetic because the first restaurant to serve lab-grown meat chose chicken in a trio of sample dishes. Served on a bun with spring onion and sesame, wrapped in phyllo puff pastry and black bean puree, or topped on…
