The next time you order in from Madame Fan at JW Marriot Singapore South Beach you might find yourself nibbling on cultured chicken when you pick a steamed chicken dumpling or a chicken salad.
Last May, the modern Cantonese restaurant became the first restaurant in the world to replace conventional chicken with Good Meat cultured chicken, even if it does so just once a week for take-outs.
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What exactly is cultured chicken, you ask? It is, essentially, lab-grown meat that starts with a chicken’s stem cells, which can be taken from a live bird, a piece of meat, a cell bank, or the root of a feather.
The cells are fed nutrients like those found in soy and corn…