“Lab meat”‘s backers argue avoiding slaughtering animals will reduce both suffering and greenhouse emissions
US authorities on Friday agreed on how to regulate food products cultured from animal cells—paving the way to get so-called “lab meat” on American plates.
The Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration agreed to share regulation of cell-cultured food products, they said in a joint statement, following a public meeting in October.
While technical details have yet to be confirmed, the FDA would oversee the collection and differentiation of cells—when stem cells develop to specialized cells— while USDA would oversee production and labeling of food products.
“This regulatory framework will leverage both the FDA’s experience regulating cell-culture technology and living biosystems and the USDA’s expertise in regulating livestock and poultry products for human consumption,” the statement said, adding that the agencies see no need for legislation on the matter.
The question of whether to approve cell-cultured food products has never really arisen in the US. In fact, several niche “lab-meat” startups already exist, but production costs are […]
My guess is that lab meat caters to those who refuse to look at the literature on eating flesh simply for the taste, since no one in America’s cities needs eat flesh for nutrients, especially the urban myth of protein deficiency. My suspicion is that the same meat molecule like Neu5Gc as posted by Dr Michael Greger in 2012 will still play havoc with our bodies.
The lifestyle diseases that plague western civilizations are not of deficiency but of excess.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/