'Not only viable, but inevitable...' Cell-cultured meat in the spotlight as UPSIDE Foods opens 'most advanced cultivated meat production facility in the world'

Six weeks after the publication of an article arguing that cell-cultured meat faces “intractable technical challenges at food scale,” industry pioneer UPSIDE Foods has opened what it claims is the “most advanced cultivated meat production facility in the world” in Emeryville, California, and insists that growing meat from animal cells – outside of an animal - is “not only viable, but inevitable.”