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It's not a bad idea if it's viable. Skin grafts have been used in hospitals for a long time now to treat patients so the science for growing flesh exists. If it can be done commercially on chicken meat for commercial consumption it'll probably become standard practice eventually, but I think it will be further into the future than 10 - 15 years from now.
I don't know if the science is at the point where it makes financial sense to grow it in the lab, even if it's possible to do so, rather than sticking to raising real chicken. I think it takes 7 weeks to grow chickens to market; can flesh in the lab be grown in the same time? A similar example is that for years now we've been trying to figure out how to breed and harvest lobsters, but not only do we not know how to breed them efficiently (if at all since their larvae go thru so many stages and are extremely vulnerable), but getting them to market size takes years, which is why they're only still fished out of the oceans dwindling populations. Right or wrong, the financial logistics will have to work before industries begin growing and marketing lab grown chicken meat.
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