Italy prohibits cultured meat while other countries and celebrities promote it

Cultured meat is generating countries in the EU that prohibit it and others that promote it. On the prohibition side is Italy. Italian parliamentarians have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultured meat for either human or animal consumption. The Italian Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, has defended that Italy is the first country in the world to have safeguarded the diet from synthetic foods. Other countries, on the contrary, are great promoters of this type of meat. One of them is the Netherlands, whose government has allocated 60 million euros for the development of cultured meat. The Netherlands put cultured meat on the map in 2013, when Netherlands-based Mosa Meat introduced its first cell-cultured meat. Germany is also another of the countries that has mobilized funds for the development of this type of food. In the German government's 2024 budget, there is an allocation of €38 million allocated to the development of cultured or ...