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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by somenameforme on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:15PM (#35361073)
The WEF messaging is not a secret, neither is their membership list (at least for corporations). They're pushing for lab meat hard. [1] And that sample is just a fragment of what's out there. Just do a quick search for something like "site:weforum.org lab grown meat". And so this really changes this issue. For instance, in America Kroger is not only the largest grocery chain but also affiliated with the WEF [2].

So if you're an American farmer, you should expect Kroger (among other WEF affiliated businesses) to treat lab meat in an unfairly preferential way. Even if you would feel comfortable competing against lab meat on a "level" playing field, this changes the game, and creates a much bigger motivation for things exactly like what's happening in Italy right now.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/will-we-eat-lab-grown...

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/you-will-be-eating-re...

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/how-a-new-approach-to...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/organizations/kroger

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:57PM (#35361614)
Are you saying the American farmer doesn't have massive lobbying power and government support? And again, this is taking away consumer choice by explicitly siding with the Italian farmer. It's explicitly anti-consumer.

I also think you have the push/pull the wrong way - Kroger wants a say in WEF's decisions, it's not controlled by the WEF. It's always going to do what's best for Kroger.

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