USDA Seeks Comments on the Labeling of Meat and Poultry Products Derived from Animal Cells

[Geckolady]

The whole idea is unsettling. There's something disturbing about eating lab grown meat. I think most people would feel this way, and if people refuse to buy it, it's highly unlikely they'll continue marketing it for long.

 

[BlueBaby]

The whole idea is unsettling. There's something disturbing about eating lab grown meat. I think most people would feel this way, and if people refuse to buy it, it's highly unlikely they'll continue marketing it for long.

Either that, or they will decide that it doesn't have to have the label on it stating that it is made from that?

 

[Geckolady]

Either that, or they will decide that it doesn't have to have the label on it stating that it is made from that?

That would be pretty bad. Well, it won't be me eating that stuff. I quit eating meat a long time ago.

 

[Parront]

Either that, or they will decide that it doesn't have to have the label on it stating that it is made from that?

It needs to have a HUGE Red label, just my opinion. But they do not make the growers label GMO corn, so I doubt that Produced In Test Tube (PITT) food will be labeled except by those of us who refuse to eat it. There are already lots of reasons not to eat factory meat.

 

[Geckolady]

If they start raising meat in labs, that meat would probably end up in dog food, too! The poor pups! Yuck!!!

 

[Parront]

If they start raising meat in labs, that meat would probably end up in dog food, too! The poor pups! Yuck!!!

This is for human-grade food. Pet food could already contain it, except it is probably still too expensive compared to spent layers and chicken by-products.
This is supposed to be regulated by FSIS, the same people who bring us the chicken in the store containing Salmonella in something like 80% of the samples taken from our food. No label says that, either!

 

[Parront]

After much clicking of links, here is a direct link to make a comment:
https://www.regulations.gov/search?filter=FSIS-2020-0036
You have to click on the green button. A couple more clicks were needed after also.
I commented as an individual.
Here is my comment:
I want this to be labeled in at least 14 Bold point type: This is Produced by Test Tube Grown cells in a lab, not on a farm. Not from a living animal, but cultured cells that are cloned from the animal on the label.
Please feel free to make your own comment using any of my wording that would work for you!

 

[Parront]

I tried to look at my comment, but it is not showing. Long weekend, I guess. Let's all of us fill up their comments this weekend! When they come to work in the morning on Tuesday, there will be lots of work for the Federal employees, who all make more than us retired chicken owners!

 

[Parront]

From the comment web page:
Pursuant to 9 CFR 301.2, the term “meat” refers to the muscle of amenable livestock that is skeletal or found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart, or esophagus, with or without the bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels, which normally accompany such tissue and are not separated from it in the process of dressing. Meat does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout, or ears, or significant portions of bone or related components, or any amount of brain, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, or dorsal root ganglia. (5) Any part of amenable livestock that is capable of use as human food, but does not qualify as “meat,” is a “meat byproduct.” Any article capable of use as human food that is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of amenable livestock is a “meat food product” (21 U.S.C. 601(j)).
This is the defination of what we are raising and eating, accordint to our Gov. I copied this from: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FSIS-2020-0036-0001

 

[BleuSaphir]

This remind me of a documentary I watch on TV. I forgot which channel. It focus about restructuring San Diego city economy by harnessing lab created ocean fish meat. This technology is also has other big planned scale to improve human quality of life. I though from watching it, I say I’m all for it!

I see it no different than buying a jar of Mayo. Fruits preserved in wax. We live to artificial now.