Italy bans cultivated meat products::New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

  • AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fake news. There’s a proposal from March, it is not a law. And it’s so stupid that it bans production, not import (just to fuck over an already stalling economy)

    But don’t spread fake news.

    Edit: found article on sole24ore. You are right and our government is a bunch of retarded.

    Edit2: https://www.linkiesta.it/2023/12/mattarella-legge-carne-coltivata-servira-prima-lok-dellue/ This article says that our beloved president Mattarella did not sign it and sent it to Brussel for review.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reactionaries opposing technological innovations that would prevent suffering because they’re not ‘natural’. Color me surprised.

  • VodkaSolution @feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Please, non-Italians, pay attention: that has nothing to do with Italian cuisine, no chefs, traditional groups or whatsoever said anything about cultivated meat. And no dumb scientist said anything either. It’s just some bigot, retrograde minister of ours.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    ahah why? is this a religious thing or a socio-political thing?

    answer:

    When the ban was proposed earlier this year, Lollobrigida had indicated that its main goal was to protect Italian farmers.

  • ThePuy@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes it’s stupid, yes many Italians are pissed about this too, yes this will sunk our economy even more, yey italy

  • Crit@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Similar thing happening Romania too, it’s disheartening but in a country where the meat industry was already hit hard I can understand the economic reasons behind it, but that doesn’t mean I’m a fan of it.

    Of course a lot of people are also just afraid of anything synthetic and “unnatural”, falling into the same category as GMOs.

    • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The country should be able to subsidise short-term economic failure, but it shouldn’t hold afloat something that is bound to die (or reduce in size), especially through legal means. It goes against capitalism that underpins that economy, and common sense… Things change, and businesses die.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food

    more like the only nation to consider all cultivated meat a problem and prohibit it instead of regulating it.

    • TheMirkMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      prohibit it instead of regulating it.

      It’s like 90% of Italy’s mindset 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

      (Really tho, if we start regulating stuff there would be shit rules)

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Italy you say? The one EU member that has repeatedly used its power to lock down ag requirements for the other member states?

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So they’re banning what’s likely the “end all, be all” meat replacement in the (hopefully not so distant) future just so that being a “livestock farmer” remains viable?

    • OnU@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes but of course. “Ban the machines that can harvest our crops, we want to keep our slaves” Its so sad to see…

  • blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We have a really stupid minister in charge of this stuff. And i mean it in the truest sense of the word, this guy has a room temperature iq.

    Anyways, the sale ban will probably fail in court, the production ban will only harm the italian industry because sure as hell they can’t stop european synthetic meat from entering the country.