Italy bans lab-grown meat

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  For Lollobrigida, cultured meat production is an existential threat to traditional meat farming and to a rural way of life lived in harmony with the land: “If you produce a food that has no relationship to man, land, work, you can move production to a place with lower taxes and less environmental standards, hurting jobs and the environment.”

  The opposition has criticized the measures as “ideological propaganda” consistent with the hostility that Meloni’s party toward globalization and modernity, and its defense of a sometimes imagined traditional lifestyle and values.

  Since coming to power a year ago as Italy’s first minister for food sovereignty, Lollobrigida, who is Meloni’s brother-in law, has introduced a raft of patriotic measures defending Italian culture and culinary heritage.

  In March the minister introduced measures requiring clear labeling and health warnings for flour derived from insects such as crickets and mealworm larvae.

  Lollobrigida set his sights this summer on a foreign invasive species, the Atlantic blue crab, which is threatening Italian native clams and mussels.

  Commentators have pointed out that Italy might not be able to oppose the sale of synthetic meat produced within the European Union, where the common single market allows the free movement of goods and services.

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