When Science Meets Your Dinner Plate Think about the last burger you ate. The sizzling patty, the smoky aroma, the satisfying ...

Missouri lawmakers are considering bills to ban the sale of lab-grown meat, citing potential health risks and concerns about ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A bill to ban labeling lab-grown meat as “meat” passed the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday 99-7, with 4 representatives not voting. Lab-grown meat was first approved ...

Sarah Simpson, director of legal affairs for the Indiana Board of Animal Health, asks lawmakers to maintain her agency's jurisdiction in a lab-grown meat labeling bill while testifying in committee on ...

The USDA is finalizing rules requiring cultivated meat to be labeled as “cell-cultivated,” aiming to ensure scientific accuracy and prevent consumer confusion as products enter the market. Traditional ...

Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean meat—can offer a kinder alternative while ...

Mississippi became the third state to ban cell-derived meat, a product not for sale in the United States. But not all livestock producers are opposed to cultivated protein. By Andrew Jacobs and Emily ...

Cattle feed at a ranch that supplies the animals for export to the U.S. in Zamora, northern Mexico, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Cattle ranchers were the most vocal supporters of the ban on lab-grown meat.

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