World’s First Lab-Grown Meat Restaurant Launches In Israel

Nov 15

The restaurant’s game-changing menu uses meat grown directly from chicken cells, rather than farmed animals.

A lab-grown chicken dish at The Chicken. Credit: SuperMeat

Diners can now have a taste of the future of food, with the world’s first lab-grown meat restaurant now open in Israel.

The world’s current food system which relies on industrial animal farming, is having a devastating effect on our land resources, water usage, and amount of carbon emissions, as well as causing immeasurable suffering to billions of farmed animals every year. This huge problem is leading the world’s biggest food companies to invest in more sustainable solutions to feed the world’s population, including less-resource intensive plant-based foods and lab-grown animal proteins.

Now, a more sustainable and animal-friendly future is one huge step closer than ever before, with the launch of lab-grown meat restaurant The Chicken.

Diners ordering lab-grown chicken dishes at The Chicken. Credit: SuperMeat

Based near Tel Aviv, the new eatery is the first to let customers try lab-grown meat, which is grown directly from chicken cells, rather than a farmed animal. The meat, crafted by Tel Aviv-based food tech company SuperMeat, is the result of a three-year collaboration between food technologists, engineers, biologists, and chefs.

A burger with a lab-grown chicken patty at The Chicken. Credit: SuperMeat

The end product looks - and tastes - just like chicken, but without the need for farming animals. The Chicken, the brand says, is therefore “at the forefront of a food revolution to provide nutritional security, drastically reduce carbon emissions, and increase food safety worldwide”.

“The chicken fillet is breaded and deep-fried, making it crispy on the outside, and tender and juicy on the inside. It has a deep chicken flavor and aroma,” Ido Savir, CEO and co-founder of SuperMeat, told LIVEKINDLY. “Tasting panels and chefs who experimented with the product were excited with the possibilities and remarked that it was indistinguishable from conventionally manufactured chicken.”

Also known as cell-based or cultured meat, lab-grown meat is one of the leading solutions to eliminating factory farms and making the suffering of animals in the farming industry a thing of the past. And because it’s crafted in a lab rather than via animals on a farm, it’s healthier than conventional meat because it contains no antibiotics.

For more on how the future of food could help save billions of animals from factory farms, listen to our podcast episode with James Arbib: Rethinking Humanity.

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