Meat Made in a Lab? What?

By: Sean McNulty. You can’t buy it at the supermarket. Not yet, anyway. But companies in the United States and abroad are growing meat from cell cultures in labs. And they’re hoping to eventually do to the deli what soymilk did to the dairy isle. They are calling this new phenomenon “clean meat.” But in the meantime, there are too many questions and details to cull through before this novel idea hits your burger bun. Is it meat? Who will regulate it? Lawmakers have taken notice and are mulling the question of how to regulate these novel inventions. Representative Rosa DeLauro asked the Government Accountability Office to look into how cell-cultured food products are regulated in a letter dated March 28th, 2018. Connecticut democrat requested that the GAO look into what regulations exist for meats, milks, and other animal products cooked up in a lab. She also asked the GAO to investigate how other countries regulate those products. The Birth of Clean Meat…

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