A Brazilian political party wants to ban laboratory-grown meat in Brazil to protect livestock

Booming among consumers and the focus of million-dollar investments from the largest companies in the world, cultured meat became the target of a bill presented by deputy Tião Medeiros, representative of the Progressive Party (center-right) for Paraná and president of the House Agriculture Committee. The proposal (4616/2023) wants to prohibit the research, production, reproduction, import, export, transportation and private marketing of animal meat (beef, pork, poultry and others) grown in laboratories. The prohibition extends to any food product that contains this type of meat obtained through cell culture or synthetic techniques in its composition. The ...