Source: CounterPunch
by Jon Hochschartner
“Eleven Republican members of Congress recently sent a letter to the director of national intelligence and the USDA’s director of homeland security, expressing their concern China was pulling away from the United States in the field of biotechnology, specifically as it relates to cultivated meat. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. … This represents a marked shift from prior Republican engagement with the field of cellular agriculture. Over the past year, a handful of Republican-controlled states have preemptively banned the new protein, while a number of others are considering similar measures. Meanwhile, even some conservative Democrats, like Senator John Fetterman, have expressed support for such bans.” (10/15/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/15/cultivated-meat-nationalism/