Cell-cultured chicken made by SuperMeat. The picture is from the company’s press kit.

5 Reasons Why We Need Lab-Grown Meat

Cultured meat comes with many benefits

Whether you know it as lab-grown, cultured, or cultivated meat, you may have heard of this futuristic food developed in labs. By harmlessly extracting cells from live animals, scientists have been able to grow real meat in labs, not far from how plants are grown from seeds.