Italy bans lab-grown meat to protect farmers and culinary tradition
Italy has become the first country to ban the sale of laboratory-produced meat, to protect the farming sector and culinary tradition, the right-wing government has said.
The ban on cultivated meat and other non-traditional foods such as high-protein insect powder was recently approved in the senate.
Francesco Lollobrigida, the agriculture minister and brother-in-law of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, said on Facebook: “We are the first nation to ban it, with all due respect to the multinationals who hope to make monstrous profits by putting citizens’ jobs and health at risk.”
Ettore Prandini, the president of the farmers’ association Coldiretti, said he was proud that Italy was the first country to block the products. He claimed that the effects on public health after consuming the
