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Planning a BBQ for July 4th this week? You might want to check the labels on the meat you buy at the grocery store and make sure it's not some of the new lab-grown meat alternatives. So what exactly is this new "environmentally friendly, lab-grown meat"?
Jack Hubbard with the Center for Environment and Welfare described how they make this lab-grown meat, saying, "They start with animal cells, and they add a variety of chemicals and hormones that are designed to feed these cells so they replicate over and over and over again."
Hubbard says on top of a myriad of other concerns about this fake meat, it might not even be the environment saver that it's being billed as. Hubbard said, "The emissions impact of lab-grown meat may be as much as 25x greater than that of natural farm-raised beef."
Hubbard says that two companies have already received FDA approval to sell their "cell cultivated meat" in the United States, and more are on the way.