US: Michigan congressman seeks to ban cultivated meat

“This is about protecting our ranchers and about protecting the integrity of our food supply,” DeSana said. “This is also about protecting your right to provide food for yourself and your family.” DeSana and his wife operate Shamrock Station, a sheep farm where they raise grassfed lambs on pasture in northern Monroe County, as well as cattle, chickens and Pyrenean Mountain Dogs. He is a member of the Michigan Sheep Producers and the Michigan Cattleman’s Association. As a producer himself, DeSana emphasizes the importance of getting protein directly from an animal. “… no, I don’t want lab-grown meat as a substitute for the real thing, and I don’t want to get my protein by eating bugs,” he said. “Let the chickens eat the bugs the way nature intended; we’ll eat the chickens.” DeSana’s legislation defines “cultivated meat” as “a meat or meat product that was produced from cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the animal from which the cells were ...