Lab-Grown Chicken — The Latest Silicon Valley Mess to Clean Up?

Billionaires are heavily invested in growing fake meat in laboratories, but the end result is coming up short - for human health and the environment.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Upside Foods, a leader in the fake meat market and one of two companies allowed to sell cultured meat in the U.S., has failed to scale up its production to produce meaningful amounts of synthetic meat

• Plagued by contamination issues, Upside had problems with rodent DNA found in one of its chicken cell lines

• While parading its expensive st…