Lab grown meat Archives

Klar: The Battle Over Lab-Grown Meat Heats Up

June 5, 2025 John Klar

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign a bill banning cell-cultured proteins in the Lone Star State. Montana, Indiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska have enacted similar bans, reflecting an increasing pushback to what many see as a globalist effort to control food supplies, undermining traditional American farming. Advocates claim fake meat substitutes, … Read more

Another US State Has Banned Lab Grown ‘Meat’

May 23, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Cloned meat, one of several names I’ve bandied about for Lab-grown meat (mystery meat is another), is not better for the environment, it is not better for people, and it is not the future of beef in America if actual Americans have anything to say.

Florida Bans Manufacture and Sale of Lab-Grown Meat

May 3, 2024 Steve MacDonald

No compilation of urban legends would be complete without mentioning cafeteria-style mystery meat. It is shaped like meat, colored (and cooked) like meat, but would it stand up to even casual scrutiny? Stories about schools saving money by cheating out on food were spurious at best. Schools don’t try to save money.

Synthetic Chicken Will Never Fly

October 25, 2023 John Klar

Recent revelations at a premier lab-grown meat startup suggest techno-mystical visions of cheap, plentiful, vat-cultured meats are a fantastical pipe dream. Venture capitalists and a climate-anxious public have been lured into believing synthetic animal meat substitutes will solve environmental problems while liberating farm animals.

We Should Call Lab Grown Meat, Cloned Meat – Or Better Yet, Mystery Meat.

July 7, 2023July 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

We’ve written about Lab Grown meat and plant-based products pretending to be meat. Their carbon footprint is larger. It costs more than the real thing. And while plant-based fake meat’s nutritional claims are spurious, with cloned meat, they are a mystery.

Vegans Are Made of Meat and They Are Bad for The Planet

May 18, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A not-so-old adage says cows eat grass; therefore, steak is plant-based meat. I was reminded of that last week when someone was talking to me about some vegan encounter of the third kind—the COIVD-era equivalent of a food Karen.