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Cultivated versus Uncouth; All or Nothing; Genetic Enforcement

Cultivated versus Uncouth The Italian Chamber of Deputies passed a law banning the sale of cultivated meat. The law will prevent the production and sale of food or feed "from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals." Apparently, you can only eat animals in Italy. But they’ll treasure their tripe and serve a bowl of nothing but animal fat and call it “soupe.” They try to fancy it up with names like Pani ca Meusa – Palermo, but it is still just a veal lung and spleen sandwich. They can ban whatever they like, but it likely is illegal under the WTO. All or Nothing India and 80 other countries are angry at World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She initially scheduled an inform...

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