Meat grown from animal cells? Here's what it is and how it's made

Two US companies just got permission to sell a new kind of chicken — but you can’t buy it at the grocery store. Here’s what to know about the process.

The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells.

California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat were granted permission on Wednesday to sell their products by the Agriculture Department.

Livestock doesn’t need to be raised and killed to produce this new type of meat, which proponents say is better for the animals and for the environment because land does not need to be cleared for grazing or growing feed.

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