Chicken as food

Manmade meat is marching ever-closer to your dinner plate. A second company has received a critical safety green light from the Food and Drug Administration, and can now move forward with next steps towards selling its lab-grown chicken substitute to U.S. consumers.Good Meat, the sister-brand of Just Egg and a subsidiary of company Eat Just, completed pre-market FDA review earlier this week. The agency’s reviewers “have no questions at this time,” regarding the safety of Good Meat’s “cultured chicken cell material,”…

If you’ve gone online this week or turned on the TV, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about the gross and potentially fatal practice of cooking chicken in NyQuil. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration warned about the “recent NyQuil chicken” challenge, and by the amount of coverage it’s gotten, you would think that a whole swath of people had been doing this very stupid thing. But not quite.When I first saw the news articles pop up about NyQuil chicken earlier this week, I felt a strange sense of déjà vu. This was…