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Europe lags behind in lab-grown meat race
While Singaporeans dine on stem-cell-produced chicken, industry warns Europe is reluctant.
When Singapore became the first country to approve and commercially sell lab-grown meat this month, Ira van Eelen couldn’t help thinking the wrong continent was making the headlines.
- Arthur Neslen
- Politico
“What’s happening in Singapore should have been happening in Europe,” said Van Eelen, a board adviser to Eat Just, the company that produced the lab-grown chicken in Singapore.
Her father, Dutch scientist Willem van Eelen, pioneered and patented the technology which Eat Just had hoped to launch in the…