Learn more about health with this collection
The power of gratitude and positive thinking
Ways to improve your mood
Simple daily habits for a happier life
Discover 137 similar ideas in
It takes just
18 mins to read
Labeling lab-grown meat
- In 1869, margarine was invented as a butter replacement. The dairy farmers raised the alarm in the United States; They convinced the U.S. Government to tax margarine and lobbied against the use of yellow dyes to make the butter replacement look more buttery.
- Dairy farmers objected to soymilk and almond milk being called milk, but the FDA hasn't done anything to stop brands from using the word.
Unlike margarine or soymilk, cultured meat is biochemically identical to the substance it's competing with.
16
103 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Meat from labs
Meat might have finally met its match. Some meat is now being cultured and grown into slabs that mimic meat.
It currently goes by names such as in-vitro meat, cultured meat, lab-grown meat and clean meat.
19
100 reads
Additional words and labeling
Apart from labels like clean meat or cultured meat, companies might be asked to add clarifying language to their packaging that explains that the meat was grown in a lab.
Lab-grown meat companies believe that this kind of meat will replace slaughterhouses altogether. They hope to see la...
11
39 reads
Cultured meat and real meat
Lab-grown meat companies say that their lab-grown meat is real meat because it comes from an animal and has the same biochemical makeup as meat.
Others argue that real meat is from a harvested animal. They are against the hijacking of the term "meat."
11
56 reads
Making the rules
The USDA (responsible for overseeing agriculture) and the FDA (regulating drugs and dietary supplements) both could have some say in how lab-grown meat is labeled.
- From a production standpoint, cultured meat is more in line with the way drugs and additives are made in a lab.
10
39 reads
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates