--- title: Good Meat Cultivated Chicken: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 description: Find out why Good Meat Cultivated Chicken is one of the best inventions of 2023 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:22:20.041Z og:title: Good Meat Cultivated Chicken: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:description: Find out why Good Meat Cultivated Chicken made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59579401a27b0d68/698a4186d0753356e7e6e805/best-inventions-2023-good-meat-cultivated-chicken.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Good Meat Cultivated Chicken: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Good Meat Cultivated Chicken: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 twitter:description: Find out why Good Meat Cultivated Chicken made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59579401a27b0d68/698a4186d0753356e7e6e805/best-inventions-2023-good-meat-cultivated-chicken.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Meat Without the Footprint Good Meat Cultivated Chicken by [Aryn Baker](https://time.com/author/aryn-baker/) ## Aryn Baker  Ever since the first hamburger grown from bovine stem cells was unveiled in 2013, with a €250,000 price tag (around $280,000), biotechnologists have raced to produce an affordable alternative that tastes the same as meat, no slaughter—and fewer emissions—required. Startup [Good Meat](blank) surged ahead when it launched its bioreactor-cultivated chicken morsels in Singapore in 2020, but rival [Upside Foods](https://upsidefoods.com/) wasn’t far behind. On June 21, the U.S. Department of Agriculture authorized both companies to sell cultivated meat in the U.S. Now that they are no longer vying for first, the companies can compete on taste and price. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/"},"headline":"Meat Without the Footprint","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:22:20.041Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59579401a27b0d68/698a4186d0753356e7e6e805/best-inventions-2023-good-meat-cultivated-chicken.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aryn Baker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aryn-baker/"}],"creator":"Aryn Baker","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59579401a27b0d68/698a4186d0753356e7e6e805/best-inventions-2023-good-meat-cultivated-chicken.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324151/good-meat-cultivated-chicken/","name":"Meat Without the Footprint"}}]}] ```