Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage

Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by 000ooo000 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:00AM (#35355889)

If food heritage is so important to the people of Italy, and they agree that lab-grown meat is vastly inferior for all of the claimed reasons, I imagine lab-grown meat as a product would just flop. Why ban it, unless it's all just political theatre?

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:11AM (#35356018)

Sounds like you answered your own question.

Conservative national-chauvinist gov't enacts national-chauvinist legislation.

It's "throwing red meat to your base" ... except actually literally, not metaphorically.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by briandear on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:31AM (#35357021)

If “climate” is so important to the people of California, and they agree that the ICE vehicle is vastly inferior for all the claimed reasons, I imagine ICE vehicles as a product would just flop. Why ban it, unless it’s all just political theater?

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by wolfi008 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:11AM (#35357551)

Pollutants of your ICE are hurting others, while the taste of meat is solely on the consumer themselves.

That's why you are being downvoted.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by stu2b50 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:40PM (#35361394)

Negative externalities require external interference in market economies to produce the socially optimal outcome. Climate change and pollution are clear examples of negative externalities.

As it happens, the farming of meat actually has severe negative externalities in this case. If anything, it's farmed meat that should be restricted by the government in that model.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by __void on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:50AM (#35357264)

because in government right now are far-right populists who have to distract the masses from the fact that they are not doing anything they promised in the election campaign

in recent months the issues have been banning rave parties, banning documents for children of lgbt couples and war on cricket flour

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