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UK Becomes First European Country to Approve Lab Meat for Public Sale
2024-07-18
[Breitbart] Banking on Bird Flu?
The UK has become the first European country to approve lab-grown meat to be sold to the public, with the synthetically developed protein expected to appear on the shelves as early as this year.

British regulators have given the approval to UK-based firm Meatly to begin selling its lab-grown meat as dog food to the public. The approval paves the way for taste-test trials with dogs to begin for its new pet food, which will include proteins derived from cultivated chicken cells.

The co-founder and CEO of the startup, Owen Ensor told The Telegraph on Wednesday: “The European Union has traditionally been a more conservative regulator and the US is getting embroiled in food politics – unnecessarily, in my opinion. So the UK can really step up here.

“There has been an opportunity with Brexit, both legally with the disengaging from the EU process, but also from a government perspective. There’s been a lot of enthusiasm for innovative solutions and I think that we’ll see that continue with the current Government.”

The company, founded in 2022, said that it is planning to license its technology to other firms in Britain, opening the door to the possibility of lab meat being sold to humans in the near future, as the process to produce it would be “very similar”.

Posted by:Skidmark

#10  British cuisine ...boil it til you can't tell what it was.
Posted by: magpie   2024-07-18 20:16  

#9  How does boiled lab meat taste?
Posted by: Beavis   2024-07-18 16:48  

#8  Some of the stuff just has funny names. Bubble and Squeak, Spotted Dick etc.
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2024-07-18 15:47  

#7  Well, given some of the other stuff Brits eat....
Posted by: Mercutio   2024-07-18 09:42  

#6  Soylent Red
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-07-18 08:38  

#5  Why do I keep hearing Monty Python skits?

Because the Monty Python guys recognized the foolishness of the British people way back then.

As did C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, George Orwell and many more before them.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2024-07-18 07:31  

#4  re:^ Why do I keep hearing Monty Python skits?
Posted by: alanc   2024-07-18 07:22  

#3  ^ "Well... hardly ever."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2024-07-18 05:43  

#2  Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never will be slaves
.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-18 04:52  

#1  which will include proteins derived from cultivated chicken cells.

Does this mean...what was fowl dog food meat can now be used for fowl people meat?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-07-17 11:49  

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