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There's a parallel issue with traditional meat farmers banding together to prevent labelling this as "meat". I agree with them when it comes to plant based mea
by jdsully 7y ago
There's a parallel issue with traditional meat farmers banding together to prevent labelling this as "meat". I agree with them when it comes to plant based meat imitators but cultured meat is a harder sell for me. This is actual meat tissue.
- PyroLagus 7y agoLab-grown diamond faced the same issue, but now it's considered diamond just the same by the FTC, so I'm not sure what the farmers are hoping for.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoThe gap between lab grown diamonds versus those found in the Earth is much narrower than lab grown vs farm grown meat today. You need special technology to detect one from the other. With time, it'll be an increasingly losing battle for the farmers.
- msla 7y ago> I'm not sure what the farmers are hoping for. Effective subsidies, like when margarine legally wasn't allowed to be sold yellow: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/2014/08/13/the-butter-wars-when-margarine-was-pink/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/20... Force the vat-meat makers to call their product something unappetizing, and save the cattle yards.
- larnmar 7y agoIf the French can stop you from calling your chemically identical sparkling white wine “Champagne”, I see no reason why meat farmers shouldn’t be able to stop you from calling your industrially-grown bovine cell culture “meat”.
- fbbgfddd 7y agoIf they called it “dead cow” I’d agree, but they call parts of nuts meat as well. Meat doesn’t mean dead animal.
- jdsully 7y agoChampagne is the name of a region, and the grapes and finally the wine inherit the name from that region. Because the taste of grapes are affected by weather the actual region of production makes a difference. I don't consider it quite the same thing. That said, there is little consistency in how things are named and often it comes down to the relative power of one special interest over another. We shall see how this shakes out.
- glandium 7y agoFWIW, the grapes aren't called Champagne. Champagne sparkling wine usually uses Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier or Chardonnay grapes.
- msla 7y agoWhat it's legally allowed to be advertised as and what people will call it are two different things.
- AstralStorm 7y agoSo they should all get to sell natural and organic meat. ;)