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Startup's Lab-Grown Chicken Nugget Passes Taste Test

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The future of meat production may be in a lab, and San Francisco food startup Just is on a mission to make eating well easy and sustainable.

At the company's headquarters in the Mission District, scientists are growing meat from animal cells. KPIX 5 reporter Betty Yu got to taste a chicken nugget that came from the cells of a chicken that is still alive and free.

"What we do is we work with farmers. We get a cell from their animals because they know their animals the best, we get it from the root of a feather, a slaughtered piece of meat, a biopsy," explained Josh Tetrick, CEO and co-founder of Just.

The company's latest iteration of the chicken nugget is not yet commercially available, but Just scientists are harvesting and studying cells from cows, too.

Read the full story at CBSSanFrancisco.com.

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