{"id":12933,"date":"2025-03-14T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/whos-afraid-of-lab-grown-meat\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:05:00","slug":"whos-afraid-of-lab-grown-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/whos-afraid-of-lab-grown-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Afraid of Lab-Grown Meat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Curious to try a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/upsidefoods.com\/food\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lab-grown chicken sandwich<\/a>? Don\u2019t look to satiate your craving in Mississippi, which earlier this week moved to ban so-called <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/21\/us\/lab-grown-meat-sale-approval.html\" title=\"\">cultivated or cell-derived meat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The proposed ban, unanimously passed by the House of Representatives, carries a $500 fine and up to three months in jail for anyone growing or selling such products within the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bill, which Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, a Republican, is expected to sign, is the latest in a series of legal maneuvers by states seeking to constrain the nascent cell-cultured meat industry \u2014 despite the fact that such products are currently unavailable to consumers in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In contrast with alternative-meat products like Impossible Burger, which are made entirely from plants, lab-grown meat starts as cells taken from an animal. By nourishing them with a cocktail of nutrients, scientists can coax these cells to develop into animal muscle, connective tissue or fat \u2014 the basic components of meat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Proponents say cultivated meat can address the many environmental impacts of farmed livestock and provide meat eaters a protein that does not require the slaughtering<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>of animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, Florida and Alabama became the first states to outlaw the cultivation and sale of meat grown in laboratories, and a number of other states, including Nebraska and Georgia, are considering similar measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bans are unconstitutional, proponents say, and won\u2019t survive court challenges, some already underway. \u201cIt\u2019s a whole lot of political theater,\u201d said Suzannah Gerber, executive director of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ampsinnovation.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Association for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation<\/a>, a trade group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The opposition to cultivated meat has mostly taken hold in red states, but the trend defies easy categorization. Trade groups like the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncba.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">National Cattlemen\u2019s Beef Association<\/a> and the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/meatinstitute.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Meat Institute<\/a> have come out against restrictive measures, and Republican lawmakers in Wyoming and South Dakota have quashed similar bills, with many describing the proposed bans as anathema to conservative values like limited government and free trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf we let the government decide what foods we eat and what medicines we take, our bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny,\u201d State Senator Bob Ide of Wyoming, quoting Thomas Jefferson, said shortly before <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G25AmBjkOpI\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">voting against<\/a> the measure in his state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, the measures are unlikely to have much real world impact. Although the prospect of mass produced lab-grown meat has prompted breathless headlines and drawn billions in investment, its commercial viability remains unproven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Only two companies, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/upsidefoods.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Upside Foods<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmeat.co\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Good Meat<\/a>, are currently authorized to sell cultured meat in the United States; the companies briefly sold limited quantities to a few restaurants, none of which were in states that have passed the bans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration granted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/hfp-constituent-updates\/fda-completes-pre-market-consultation-human-food-made-cultured-pork-fat-cells\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">regulatory clearance<\/a> to a third company, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/missionbarns.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Barns<\/a>, for a lab-grown pork fat product. In addition to being under F.D.A. oversight, cultivated meat products are regulated by the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some opponents of cultivated meat traffic in falsehoods about the health risks of cultivated meat, while others, like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, have embraced the opportunity to defend domestic livestock producers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But cultured meat has also been swept up in the nation\u2019s culture wars. That\u2019s in part because proponents often describe lab-grown meat as a \u201cno kill\u201d humane alternative to farmed animal products. Many also see it as a way to reduce the environmental impacts of raising millions of cows, pigs and chickens \u2014 and of the large quantities of antibiotics required to keep them healthy in crowded feeding sheds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s no way we can sustain healthy food the way we\u2019re doing today with livestock production, because we just don\u2019t have the land and the resources,\u201d said David Kaplan, an expert on cellular agriculture at Tufts University. \u201cWe need alternative options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such sentiments inflame politicians who look unkindly on vegetarians and environmentalists, and for whom the consumption of a juicy T-bone steak is an act of patriotism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last May, in announcing his decision to sign the state\u2019s ban, Governor DeSantis sought to cast his stance as a blow against liberals. \u201cToday, Florida is fighting back against the global elite\u2019s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,\u201d he said during a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/eog\/news\/press\/2024\/governor-desantis-signs-legislation-keep-lab-grown-meat-out-florida\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">news conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The environmental benefits of cultivated meat remain theoretical, and studies suggest that certain production methods <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsfoodscitech.4c00281\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">could be<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/sustainable-food-systems\/articles\/10.3389\/fsufs.2019.00005\/full\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">energy intensive<\/a>, especially if implemented on a large scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cultivated meat begins with a small sample of animal cells, which can be collected from fertilized eggs or tissue biopsies from living animals. The cells are nourished with nutrients, multiplying rapidly in large tanks called bioreactors. A variety of technical hurdles remain. It is much easier to create ground meat products than intact cuts of meat, and producing cultured meat is expensive and has been done only on a very small scale. Experts say that companies will need to drastically ramp up production, and bring down costs, in order for these products to really compete with conventional meat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Americans, it would seem, are ready to give cultivated meat a try. In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/cfdas\/resource-library\/consumer-food-insights-volume-3-issue-3-march-2024\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2024 survey<\/a> by Purdue University, two-thirds of respondents said that they would be open to eating cultivated chicken or beef in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to Joseph Balagtas, director of the school\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/cfdas\/about\/our-team\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability<\/a>, which conducted the survey, consumers consistently report that taste and price are the biggest factors influencing their food decisions. Ultimately, he predicted, the fate of cultivated meat will depend on whether companies can clear those two bars. \u201cIf it tastes good and it\u2019s affordable, then consumers will eat it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, Good Meat began selling <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/24\/world\/asia\/singapore-cultivated-lab-meat.html\" title=\"\">its cultivated chicken<\/a> at a butcher shop in Singapore, the first country to approve lab-grown meat. Josh Tetrick, a founder and the chief executive of Eat Just, the parent company of Good Meat, said that the company had sold less than 100 pounds in the last six months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCan companies like ours figure out a way to manufacture this at scale, defined as tens of millions of pounds, at a cost that makes sense?\u201d he asked. \u201cThat\u2019s the big question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, industry executives are trying to thwart the state restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Upside Foods filed a federal lawsuit last August challenging the Florida law as unconstitutional. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/gfi.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Food Institute<\/a>, an alternative meat advocacy group that is providing legal assistance to Upside Foods, argues that the bans violate the commerce clause of the Constitution, which bars states from interfering with interstate trade. The laws, experts say, also violate the so-called pre-emption doctrine, which gives federal laws precedence over state laws when the two conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese laws are pretty flagrantly in violation of both,\u201d said Madeline Cohen, the institute\u2019s associate director of regulatory affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Backers of the Mississippi bill have not publicly explained their antipathy to cultivated meat; state legislators did not hold a public hearing or comment before unanimously voting for the ban. Representatives Bill Pigott and Lester Carpenter, two Republicans who introduced the legislation, did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Reeves, the Mississippi governor, declined to comment, as did the state\u2019s agriculture commissioner, Andy Gipson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Mr. Gipson has not been shy in criticizing cultivated protein as hostile to farmers. \u201cI want my steak to come from farm-raised beef, not a petri dish from a lab,\u201d he wrote last year <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.andygipson.com\/agriculture\/mississippi-should-join-florida-and-alabama-and-ban-lab-grown-meat\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cultivated meat proponents describe the dichotomy as a false one, and many livestock farmers agree, saying they do not see cell-derived products as a threat to their livelihood. \u201cWe know Americans love our product and will continue to buy it,\u201d said Sigrid Johannes, a spokesperson for the National Cattlemen\u2019s Beef Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Doug Grant, a Mississippi native whose seafood start-up, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticfish.co\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Fish Co<\/a>., is seeking to produce <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thefishsite.com\/articles\/atlantic-fish-co-secures-fresh-funding\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">black sea bass in the lab<\/a>, agrees. He said his product, should it gain regulatory approval, would not put him in competition with local producers, noting that overfishing has led to declines in the black sea bass population, and that the species is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/yellowtail-aquaculture-at-ccar\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">difficult to raise<\/a> in aquaculture pens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMississippi raises a lot of catfish, but no one is talking about doing cultivated catfish,\u201d Mr. Grant said. \u201cI understand that people are scared of new things, but no one is forcing consumers to buy these products. 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