The United States Department of Agriculture announced it approved the sale of “lab-grown” meat for commercial sale. In an interview with the New York Post, Diana Rodgers, a registered dietitian and author of “Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat,” warned of the unknowns regarding lab-grown meat and advocated sticking to the natural form of meats and food.
“I’d rather eat my shoe than lab-grown meat,” Rodgers told the Post. “McDonald’s is still better because the meat is a better option for vitamins,” she added later.
The real problem is that there is a lack of publicly-available nutritional information regarding lab-grown meat. When asked whether lab-grown meat was healthy or not, Rodgers said, “We just don’t know.”
“I have yet to see a life cycle assessment on the production of it,” she said. “We don’t have any public data.”
“The specific nutrition profile varies for each of our consumer products,” a Good Meat spokesman told the Post. “We use unmodified (non-GMO) chicken cells, which occur naturally in animals.”
Rodgers argued that lab-grown meat is not the same as eating traditional meat. “They’re taking mono-crop plant sources, taking them into a factory and using high-energy processes to convert them into meat,” she said.
The FDA gave the green light for lab-grown meat for two companies, and the approval by the USDA means it can now be sold commercially. The product will reportedly cost upwards of $20 per pound when it comes to stores.
The product is not vegetarian, it is cultivated from animal cells, which are incubated and grown into masses of meat in steel tanks, then cut and made to look like traditional meat, Fox Business reports. Lab-grown meat is not the same as plant-based “meat” products, such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat.
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