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How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat
Lab grown meat is available in Singapore, Israel and the United States. Photo: Nicholas Yeo, AFP via Getty Images How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat An organised backlash to the nascent meat alternative grew out of the ban in Italy last year How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat An organised backlash to the nascent meat alternative grew out of the ban in Italy last year Lab grown meat is available in Singapore, Israel and the United States.
Though it has “lower land, water, and nutrient footprints, and [can] address concerns over animal welfare,” the panel said in a recent assessment, some of the emerging technologies use a lot of power, so “access to low-carbon energy is needed to realise the full [climate] mitigation potential”. The Brussels campaign against cultivated meat made its first major intervention last spring, when a series of amendments critical of the products and the EU’s regulatory framework were tabled by MEPs linked to Farm Europe as part of a parliamentary report on the bloc’s protein strategy. Weeks later, Farm Europe argued that “the risks [of cellular meat] are clearly closer to the pharmaceutical world than food products”, and therefore the more stringent approvals process used for new drugs should be adopted, including “pre-clinical and clinical studies to be carried out prior to any marketing”.
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