US legal woes will not affect Eat Just’s cultivated meat plans in Singapore: CEO

Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick said that Good Meat plans to produce “at least twice as much” of its cell-based chicken here in 2024 than before. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE – Alternative protein company Eat Just may be fighting headwinds in the United States with recent legal woes faced by its cultivated meat arm, but chief executive Josh Tetrick said these developments will not affect the company’s operations in Singapore.

In fact, Eat Just’s cultivated meat subsidiary Good Meat plans to produce “at least twice as much” of its cell-based chicken here in 2024 than before, Mr Tetrick said in an interview with The Straits Times on March 7, amid the firm’s pause in production of the cultivated meat product here.

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