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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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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

social and economic risks of synthetic food

yeah 2 things humans just will never solve for, better shut it down. shut it all down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's funny how you can replace synthetic food in that sentence with almost anything and it makes as much sense as the original sentence.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Fake news. There's a proposal from March, it is not a law. And it's so stupid that it bans production, not import (just to fuck over an already stalling economy)

But don't spread fake news.

Edit: found article on sole24ore. You are right and our government is a bunch of retarded.

Edit2: https://www.linkiesta.it/2023/12/mattarella-legge-carne-coltivata-servira-prima-lok-dellue/ This article says that our beloved president Mattarella did not sign it and sent it to Brussel for review.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

BBC article states "Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed, in what the right-wing government calls a defence of Italian tradition."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm Italian, no news is speaking about it. Last articles are from 28-29 March talking about a proposal, so not yet law.

Edit: found article on sole24ore. You are right and our government is a bunch of retarded.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So they're banning what's likely the "end all, be all" meat replacement in the (hopefully not so distant) future just so that being a "livestock farmer" remains viable?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Yes but of course. "Ban the machines that can harvest our crops, we want to keep our slaves" Its so sad to see...

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please, non-Italians, pay attention: that has nothing to do with Italian cuisine, no chefs, traditional groups or whatsoever said anything about cultivated meat. And no dumb scientist said anything either. It's just some bigot, retrograde minister of ours.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for the insight, friend

Sorry you have that idiota

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

We’re a sad country

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well that's understandable. I too want my meat to have been grown in its own shit and be pumped full of antibiotics and let's not forget the secret incredient: cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lab-grown meat is equated to synthetic ingredients and ultra-processed foods which are known to raise health problems (but are not banned, not all additives at least and not everywhere).

Considering how politics goes these days, the producers of cultivated meat just hadn't a grip on the ministry as strong as the farmer lobby. No ideological or public health reason whatsoever. And it's not Italy, it's just politics and business everywhere.

Today it's Italy's turn, maybe tomorrow someone else will be on the hot seat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and ultra-processed foods which are known to raise health problems

The data on this are very dubious at best. Most researchers can't even agree on a definition of what they are. Corelation studies should always be taken with a grain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wouldn't want synthetic meat unless there are strict quality standards in place

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have a really stupid minister in charge of this stuff. And i mean it in the truest sense of the word, this guy has a room temperature iq.

Anyways, the sale ban will probably fail in court, the production ban will only harm the italian industry because sure as hell they can't stop european synthetic meat from entering the country.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Room temperature Celsius no less

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

We're talking Italy, so Celsius is assumed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Yes it's stupid, yes many Italians are pissed about this too, yes this will sunk our economy even more, yey italy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is that what the people want, or some big key to power that stands to inevitably lose out? If other countries transition out of meat livestock isn't it pointless to handicap yourself?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Holsteiner Katenschinken also allows the pigs to be from anywhere, but the whole curing process has to be done in Schleswig-Holstein. They could've went ahead and said that the origin of the pigs is crucial to its quality and very likely gotten away with it, but they didn't want to -- Danish pigs are cheap and plentiful.

That Parma doesn't mandate that all the curing needs to be done there is their own fucking fault and probably greed -- of big producers, that is, more interested in cheap labour than protecting local jobs.

Honestly I wouldn't be terribly surprised if in the future you'd see lab-grown DOP Katenschinken -- the stuff has always been about the specific curing method, enabled by our microclimate. The strict ingredient and process regulations will continue (including mandating that a lot of stuff needs to be done by hand) but if synthetic raw ham achieves a quality to what they're using now heck why not.


Side note: Carbonara with Holsteiner Katenschinken and Holsteiner Tilsiter is way better than with guanciale/pancetta and pecorino. Also show me a charcoal maker who can afford fancy import ingredients, fancy local ingredients are just fine. As long as they don't include cream, that is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Which means if they allowed cultured meat then surely there gonna be companies trying to find the maximum legal allowed they can add to call it parma.

Honestly, i am a big fan of proper tasting cruelty free labgrown meat and i cant wait till it gets cheap. I Believe quality might succeed what the average consumer can get now. I am just putting myself in the hide of a conservative Italian lawmaker per exercise.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Reactionaries opposing technological innovations that would prevent suffering because they're not 'natural'. Color me surprised.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Italy be taking a lotta L's these days. I wonder who they will side with in WW3?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Hey now, they were on the winning side during WW1. That's something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hey now, they were on the winning side during WW1. That's something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hey now, they were on the winning side during WW1. That's something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It locks down names. You can produce parmisan, you can't label it "parmigiano reggiano".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Slightly off-topic, but, is there a Lemmy community for cellular agriculture, akin to r/wheresthebeef? That's one of the few remaining subreddits I haven't found a Lemmy replacement for yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

You have piqued my interest. Is this something people do at home? Grow their own meats?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Sounds gross. I’m totally in.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Similar thing happening Romania too, it's disheartening but in a country where the meat industry was already hit hard I can understand the economic reasons behind it, but that doesn't mean I'm a fan of it.

Of course a lot of people are also just afraid of anything synthetic and "unnatural", falling into the same category as GMOs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

ahah why? is this a religious thing or a socio-political thing?

answer:

When the ban was proposed earlier this year, Lollobrigida had indicated that its main goal was to protect Italian farmers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conservatives gonna conservatise

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Everything except the environment and ecosystem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No spicy cultivated meatball

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