August 3, 2016
We will probably be eating lab-grown meat one day soon. So long as it can withstand a few hours in the smoker, we approve. But at the risk of spoiling a good thing with legality, what are we going to call it? FDA and USDA regulate the words we use for various foods, and there are established definitions for meat and poultry. 9 C.F.R. 381.1 defines poultry as “any domesticated bird”, and a “poultry product” as anything derived from a poultry carcass. Red meat is “the part of the muscle of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which is skeletal”.
What are your thoughts on how we shall define lab-grown meat?
