The Future of Meat Is Here—Straight From a Lab.

Eat Just is but the first company to get approval amongst dozens of others working on the development of cultivated meat—chicken, beef and pork—with the goal of reducing the impact industrial livestock production has on the climate. Meanwhile, lab-produced meat should also appeal to health-conscious eaters as its meant to be cleaner and drug-free, while animals lovers who still enjoy meat (or appreciate the protein intake) will applaud the cruelty-free method of making meat. In the United States alone, more than 7 billion chickens, 121 million pigs, and 39 million cows are killed annually for meat.



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Eat Just, Inc. is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops and markets plant-based alternatives to conventionally produced egg products and cultivated meat products. Eat Just was founded in 2011 by Josh Tetrick and Josh Balk. It raised about $120 million in early venture capital and became a unicorn in 2016 by surpassing a $1 billion valuation. It has been involved in several highly publicized disputes with traditional egg industry interests but has also partnered with them to produce and sell products. In December 2020, its lab-grown chicken became the first lab-grown meat to receive regulatory approval in Singapore. Shortly thereafter, Eat Just's cultured meat was sold to diners at the Singapore restaurant 1880, making it the "world's first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat"