{"id":752728,"date":"2018-04-13T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=752728"},"modified":"2018-04-13T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:13:49","slug":"what-is-meat-missouri-is-working-to-legislate-against-lab-grown-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=752728","title":{"rendered":"What Is Meat? Missouri Is Working to Legislate Against Lab-Grown Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Meat Industry Hall of Fame President Chuck Jolley warned in a blog post that plant-based meat substitutes are one of the \u201cmajor challenges\u201d that the agriculture industry faces in 2018.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\nZAID JILANI:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>As more and more Americans are substituting meat in their diets with plant-based alternatives, Missouri lawmakers have introduced a meat industry-friendly law that would impose stringent labeling requirements for lab-grown meats. HB 2607, authored by Missouri Reps. Jeff Knight and Warren Love, would outlaw anyone from selling lab-grown meats or meat substitutes labeled as meat. Specifically, the bill \u201cprohibits misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Critics say the legislation, which comes at a time when meat industry representatives have cited meat substitutes as a threat to their line of work, is favorable to businesses that raise and kill animals for the purpose of consumption&#8230; Last December, Meat Industry Hall of Fame President Chuck Jolley warned in a blog post that plant-based meat substitutes are one of the \u201cmajor challenges\u201d that the agriculture industry faces in 2018&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Indeed, a growing number of Americans are choosing to adopt cruelty-free diets, becoming vegetarians and vegans. The consumer research firm GlobalData noted in a report last year that the number of Americans self-identifying as vegans was at 6 percent, up from just 1 percent in 2014. At the same time, scientific advancements mean that lab-grown meat will soon be a reality, with some experts predicting that lab-grown meats could be widely available in the near future&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/04\/09\/plant-based-meat-alternatives-missouri-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RU7ggZbOR6k?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAID JILANI: &#8216;As more and more Americans are substituting meat in their diets with plant-based alternatives, Missouri lawmakers have introduced a meat industry-friendly law that would impose stringent labeling requirements for lab-grown meats. HB 2607, authored by Missouri Reps. Jeff Knight and Warren Love, would outlaw anyone from selling lab-grown meats or meat substitutes labeled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,24],"tags":[31,38],"class_list":["post-752728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-science","tag-farming","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752730,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752728\/revisions\/752730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}