Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
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#3I am italian, not sure i agree with this. I would have rather allow it (even if I would have probably not bought lab grown meat) and be sure it's well communicated during the sale (either on the package or from the vendor in case it's a butcher shop).
Especially because we can't ban Monsanto's GMOs and I don't see how this is worse...
Re: Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
#4On the topic of food traditions in Italy: 'Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong', in the FT recently - https://archive.is/4gwGh#selection-1454.0-1454.1
Re: Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
#5fun fact, the draft decree (yet to be presented to the parliament and voted upon, and likely to get lost there as this is mostly a propaganda stunt) seeks to ban "food derived from cultured vertebrate cells".
So technically if you can derive meat from slugs, you're good.
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#6I am italian, not sure i agree with this. I would have rather allow it (even if I would have probably not bought lab grown meat) and be sure it's well communicated during the sale (either on the package or from the vendor in case it's a butcher shop). Especially because we can't ban Monsanto's GMOs and I don't see how this is worse...
Yeah, allowing Monsanto or other seed tyrants to operate with impunity is not indicative of protecting "food heritage."
This is just another example of an old but still powerful industry attacking what it perceives as a threat. The same sort of thing happened to absinthe in France, and that campaign was so successful absinthe became taboo for over a century.
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#7Unpopular opinion: some controversial cultural heritages need protection. I single out tauromachy, which is incomprehensible to most, moreso the younger generations. The world is a tangle of Chesterton fences, and our righteous moral clariy is our own's worst enemy.
Re: Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
#8I am italian, not sure i agree with this. I would have rather allow it (even if I would have probably not bought lab grown meat) and be sure it's well communicated during the sale (either on the package or from the vendor in case it's a butcher shop). Especially because we can't ban Monsanto's GMOs and I don't see how this is worse...
I guess it's far worst from a Monsanto point of view, which has surly more efficient lobbyists
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#9Italian here: that's such a stupid move. They recently got scared with a couple articles about how some types of flour or dyes are made with animals and "insects", this triggered a bigger discussion about real food and fake food and now they have had to make this power move to show the people that they want to "respect" Italian history and food heritage. Soooo dumb.
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