I Tried Lab-Grown Salmon. Here's What It Tasted Like.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better. That's why states keep trying to ban it.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better. That's why states keep trying to ban it.
The ban was "enacted with the express purpose of insulating Florida agricultural businesses from innovative, out-of-state competition," according to the suit.
Juicy Marbles' vegan ribs pull apart in a shockingly realistic way, and they taste great. But they'll also set you back $77.
Lab-grown meat bans don't protect consumers, but they do protect ranchers and farmers from competition.
Cultivated meat is under scrutiny from politicians trying to protect livestock farmers.
Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
"You need meat, OK? We're going to have meat in Florida," DeSantis said during a press conference.
The move would close a promising culinary door and deny Italian consumers the opportunity to buy products that fit their preferences.
"The future of our planet depends on how we feed ourselves…and we have a responsibility to look beyond the horizon for smarter, sustainable ways to eat," says GOOD Meat's CEO.
Possibly changing the way we live just as profoundly as the internet did.
Thanks to globalization, we plebes can pay just $6.49 for a whole Whopper meal fit for a 16th-century king.
Warning diners that red meat is bad for the environment is yet another attempt to socially engineer food choices.
Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
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With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
Real factories are beginning to replace factory farms.
Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.
More choice can decrease meat consumption without coercion of regressive taxation.
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
Is America's meat processing industry making huge profits by "jacking up prices" during a pandemic, or does it need government assistance? Both, according to the Biden administration.
The beef checkoff problem raises prices without benefiting ranchers
Talk of a ban follows declining popularity of dog as a restaurant dish.
Warning people about the dangers of raw meat doesn't require prohibiting the practice.
The process uses 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production.
COVID-19 has exposed the problems of a centralized food supply and built momentum for sweeping deregulation of the meat industry.
Turns out that basing animal rights policy on the strong feelings of animal rights activists is not working out so well for the animals themselves.
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And produced with a much lower environmental footprint
Cell-based meat cultivation is on its way.
America's meat supply has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation's largest meat processing plants, but Congress can solve this by reducing onerous regulations.
Three bills are on the table, but only one of them promises to unshackle small and independent ranchers.
Anti-competitive regulations have made Americans far too reliant on mega meat processors. It's time to level the playing field.
A renewed push to pass the PRIME Act picks up steam as COVID-19 leaves us all asking “Where’s the beef?”
When it comes to the food economy, government should remember that workers and consumers call the shots.
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Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, it's providing tasty, plant-based alternatives.
Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.
Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.
Going vegetarian would reduce a person's greenhouse gas emissions by around 2 percent
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