Defining meat gets complicated
Story Date: 5/7/2018

 

Source: PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 5/3/18

Clean, cultured beef. It's what's for dinner -- maybe in the near future. But don't call it "meat" or "beef." Perhaps something more along the lines of "cell-cultured protein." The science of growing protein from cultured cells is moving fast and so are the prospects for commercial sales. But the arguments are heating up over how to define and regulate these products, which are grown in a laboratory instead of being raised in a pasture and slaughtered as meat.

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