New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

Italy bans cultivated meat products::New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

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Italy you say? The one EU member that has repeatedly used its power to lock down ag requirements and protections for it own foods for the other member states?

The only upside is that gabbagol is delicious, and who would want to fuck that up?

We’re a sad country

@tabular@lemmy.world
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Italian parma ham and such is quite famous and Italians seem to take their authentic cuisine very seriously. Supposedly there afraid that low quality fake meat will overrun the current market. I imagine the meet industry there is quite powerful though so assume lobbying was part of this.

I upvoted the post so others see it, but I do not like that they’re banning it. That’s poopy garbage ass.

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Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food

more like the only nation to consider all cultivated meat a problem and prohibit it instead of regulating it.

@TheMirkMan@lemmy.world
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prohibit it instead of regulating it.

It’s like 90% of Italy’s mindset 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

(Really tho, if we start regulating stuff there would be shit rules)

@Knutsen@lemmy.world
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I think its a good thing. Cultivated “meat” is just a giant cancer grown in laboratory. Imagine what health risks eating cancer could bare…

@jose1324@lemmy.world
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This dude doesn’t even know what cancer is lmfao

I disagree with that statement generally, but anyway, you can’t catch cancer. You can catch a disease that causes cancer, but eating cancer itself wouldn’t give you cancer. You can however catch prion disease… And these can live in real flesh/meat you get from a shop.

Also, there will be ground up cancer in processed meat. I guarantee it. You don’t think farm animals get cancer?

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They’ve cited health, yet I can’t seem to find the health risk argument. Other than that, standard Italian politics where representatives are changed quite often.

“health” was the answer to the question that followed “what do you mean we have to provide a citation?”

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‘In defence of health, of the Italian production system, of thousands of jobs, of our culture and tradition, with the law approved today, Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food,’

Health? Yeah, get back to me the next time there’s an outbreak of mad cow disease, swine flu, or bird flu and say that to my face.

Jobs? The synthetic meat isn’t going to make itself, and there will always be a market for “organic” meat in any case.

Tradition? The human race’s oldest and most persistent fallacy. The democracy of the dead.

This is shortsighted. This guys sounds exactly like the idiot lawmakers here in America who said solar panels and electric cars will never catch on, so what’s the point in investing in them now?

I wonder how much money the country makes by protecting those traditional methods of producing meats and exporting their products at high prices. Maybe that’s what they’re after. 🤔

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@MycoBro@lemmy.world
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I’m a big fan of traditional meats

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Excellent! I hope the rest of the EU follows suit

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