Beef State Wants to Define Meat
January 14, 2019
Soon after the debut of laboratory-grown hamburgers, two scholars of sustainable engineering argued in Issues that society needed to start “thinking about how factory-grown meat might transform our food system, the environment, and even our culture.” One challenge arising along the path from lab to market is what to call these new products, as Nebraska, a major beef producer, may soon become the second state, after Missouri, to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, pushed by farm groups wary of emerging alternatives.