On the other hand, the law in question rather limits the freedom to chose cultivated meat products.
I also don't believe for a second that these laws are put in place for safety reasons. They are absolutely to protect domestic farming industry.
And who says protecting domestic food sovereignty is a bad thing?
My family is 3 generations of living in plantation housing...on stolen land in Hawaii. A big part of how colonialism works is controlling "the essentials". Food production, water, land rights, information, martial force, etc
It seems like the claim is there is some large consumer demand for these foodish items. If there is, then we can expect a huge black market for these foodish products to emerge in Italy. Policía de Italia better get ready for the deluge...Expect Mama Mia to throw away her heirloom cookbooks for the new meatish craze that's about to sweep through Italy.
The soylent Don will be the most powerful man in the country I tell you...Actually, that could be the real reason behind the ban on the foodish the Italians so desperately crave. Soylent Don wants to corner the market? Your multi-national corporations better make Soylent Don an offer he can't refuse before this gets out of hand...
I've never claimed there is a large demand, merely that those who wish to consume it should be allowed to, as long as there are no negative effects to the individual or society as a whole of course.
Please refrain from misconstruing my arguments.
You are completely delusional about the story of food in the world. People can rely more on cereal/bean farming because of advancement in agriculture, mostly after the industrial revolution. Because before the invention of the tractor, much of farming was actually reliant on, you guess it, animals (horses, cows, donkeys, etc.).
The thing is that animals were mostly reserved for the richer and the poor would die much earlier, very often from malnourishment/undernourishment from all the physical work they had to.
You guys are fanatics, ready to throw away centuries of Europe history just to "be right". It's pure insanity.
No, That's the same argument religious people have about dietary restrictions.
In Italy food is a religion.
If Jews can have Kashrut and Muslims can only eat halal food (basically everything, except pork and its by-products), we can say no to lab grown food.
Why not?
Is it really progress to blindly accept everything, even if it could mean to completely hijack your own cultural traditions, that are such an important part of everyone's daily life?
No Jew ever died by eating non-kosher food. It's just a cultural tradition. Nonetheless we respect them, at least I do.
As an agnostic person who believes church and state should be very separate, you make the perfect argument for why I think this law is stupid. If you don't want to drink alcohol, smoke, eat pork or lab grown meat, go ahead. But don't force others into your religious ways of doing through restrictive laws. Just don't buy that stuff at the grocery store.
of course it is!
As an Italian from Rome, I am not only an atheist, but I'm deeply fond of the Roman Republic constitution that predates the Italian Constitution against the pope and the Vatican ruling over the people of Rome.
nevertheless food is like a religion for Italians
And religious and non religious people treat it like that.
we constantly talk about it, to the point that sometimes even I am sick of it.
I believe Japan is similar in that way.
Individuals that that follow Judaism and Islam _choose_ to limit their _personal_ diets. It's not forced upon them by the state (mostly?). To follow your analogy, you and the rest of Italy can say no to lab grown food, nothing is stopping you from not buying lab grown food.
On this specific topic though, I think banning lab grown meat could be done in a _somewhat_ reasonable way, they just went about it the wrong way. They could have just said they are worried about safety, jobs done.
Bringing in farmers, their livelihoods and tradition seems unnecessarily inflammatory.
You're totally right about it.
but honestly I did not expect anything better from post-fascists
The discussion of cheap, non nutritious food can take place pretty much anywhere today, sugary drinks, fast food, boutique organics with high markup values, labor, etc. but that's a matter of economics, whereas the move in Italy, although reasonable for their economy, is impacting a much earlier phase: R&D and P&D.
0: https://foodtank.com/news/2022/11/database-indicates-u-s-foo...
> Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed
My Italian isn't good enough to actually judge whether this is a case of mistranslation or misinterpretation, so if you have any more nuanced quotes please provide some.