(CNBC) – You’d know a chicken nugget if you saw one, right? How about one grown from a single cell, with no animals harmed in the process? Josh Tetrick is betting not.
He is trying to win over consumers with his lab-grown chicken bite following the world’s first approval of his company’s cultured chicken in Singapore at the end of 2020. “We have the freedom to sell across Singapore, whether retail, food service, hawkers, you name it,” Tetrick told CNBC Make It.
Tetrick is the founder and CEO of Eat Just, the Californian food start-up responsible for bringing the world’s first lab-grown chicken to tables. Its landmark approval for human consumption may potentially disrupt industrial livestock farms. But when Tetrick started out in 2011, that notion was a pipe dream.
“I had less than $3,000 in my bank account, and the idea was: We’re going to start a food company that takes the animal, the live animal, out of the equation of the food system,” he said. Tetrick, who started his career working for non-profit organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa, wanted to fix what he saw as one of the world’s biggest problems: Food sustainability. READ MORE
