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

Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by mrpopo on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:29AM (#35357819)

We are losing many basic nutrients in our food content simply because of farmers selecting their produce for taste and appearance. Even if all foods were cells (not true), even then not all cells are equal.

75% of people in the US are overweight or obese, do you really believe that we are doing a good job with what we are putting in our bodies?

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by Retric on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:30PM (#35359586)

I mentioned sugar in my post, but to be clear being overweight isn’t a nutrition question.

Now, I am not saying nutrition is ignorable you need to do more than say it was alive and now it’s in my tummy so everything is fine. However, you can pick a safe organism, stick it in a growth medium, let it sit for a while, and then eat it. That’s how we get cheese, beer, bread, soy sauce etc.

Calling it lab grown meat evokes an image that’s different from what’s being proposed. They aren’t synthesizing every individual molecule they are simply feeding cells.

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