Lab-Grown Chicken Firm Picks Chicago Area for Large-Scale Plant
- Upside Foods picked a suburb for first commercial-scale plant
- California company got cleared to sell the product this year
Upside Foods' Cultivated Chicken
Source: Upside Foods
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Chicagoans will soon get a taste of lab-grown chicken.
Upside Foods Inc., one of two companies cleared to sell the product in the US, is investing more than $140 million in a new factory in one of the city’s suburbs, the company said in a statement on Thursday. This will be the California-based firm’s first commercial-scale factory.