Minister says aim is to ‘safeguard our nation’s heritage’ but campaigners say artificial meat holds promise
The Italian government has approved a draft law that would ban food grown in laboratories, including artificial meat, as it seeks to “safeguard our nation’s heritage”.
Coldiretti, Italy’s biggest farmers’ association, has lobbied for the ban, arguing that homegrown produce needs to be shielded from “the attacks of multinational companies”. Francesco Lollobrigida, the minister for agriculture and food sovereignty, said the aim of the bill was to “protect our culture and our tradition, including food and wine”. He said: “Laboratory products, in our opinion, do not guarantee quality, wellbeing and the protection of our culture, our tradition.”
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