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Eat Just’s cell-grown chicken, backed by Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures, will make its global commercial debut in Singapore
- Eat Just, a San Franciscan start-up that drew funding from Hong Kong’s best-known tycoon, will officially launch its meat grown directly from chicken cells in Singapore on Saturday
- The cultured meat was approved as an ingredient in ‘chicken bites’ by the Singapore Food Agency on November 26, according to the company
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Eat Just, a San Franciscan start-up backed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, will make culinary history on Saturday when its lab-grown meat is served to paying customers in a Singapore restaurant.
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The meat grown directly from chicken cells will be dished up for dinner at 1880, a private members’ club near the InterContinental hotel, in what will be the first commercial sale of meat cultivated from animal cells anywhere in the world.
The plan is then to expand into retail establishments across the city state, Josh Tetrick, co-founder and chief executive of Eat Just, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
“I am really proud at the moment,” said Tetrick. “This is the first group of people to consume meat which did not require the killing of animals.”
The cell-grown chicken will be served in four courses, including a crispy cultured chicken in a maple waffle with spices and hot sauce, crispy sesame chicken in a bun with spring onion and pickled cucumber, and a phyllo puff pastry with black bean puree, garlic and lime, according to a menu provided by Eat Just.
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