Amend KRS 217.035 to include any food product that purports to be or is represented as meat or a meat product that contains any cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived. [node:read-more:link]
Schoolchildren in New York City will be dining on all-vegetarian breakfast and lunch meals every Monday, starting with the 2019-2020 school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week. The move follows a pilot program launched in the spring of 2018 at 15 public schools in Brooklyn and ultimately will affect an estimated 1.1 million students.Mayor de Blasio said that “cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers’ health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” while announcing the program. [node:read-more:link]
In a survey of nearly 1,000 U.K. and U.S. consumers, one in four indicate that vegetarian products should not be allowed to have meat-related names like burger, sausage or steak. The survey, commissioned by public relations agency Ingredient Communications, polled vegetarians, vegans, pescatarians and meat-eaters to explore attitudes to the way meat-free products are named.The survey also found that 18 percent of vegetarians, 33 percent of vegans and 26 percent of meat-eaters would support a ban on labeling vegetarian products with meat-related names. [node:read-more:link]
The North Dakota Legislature wants to make sure that when consumers buy meat, they know they’re buying “the edible flesh of an animal born and harvested for the purpose of human consumption,” and not something developed in a lab.The Senate on March 4 also passed a companion to the bill, House Concurrent Resolution 3024, which urges Congress to take similar actions to differentiate meat from lab-produced, meat-like products. [node:read-more:link]
South Dakota State Legislature passed Senate Bill 68 which bill prohibits labeling cell-cultured protein as meat in South Dakota. [node:read-more:link]
The FDA’s approval of the application related to AquAdvantage Salmon followed a comprehensive analysis of the scientific evidence, which determined that the GE Atlantic salmon met the statutory requirements for safety and effectiveness under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, in 2016, Congress directed the FDA not to allow into commerce any food that contains GE salmon until it issued final labeling guidelines for informing consumers of the GE salmon content in the food. [node:read-more:link]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. [node:read-more:link]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued today a best practices guideline to help the meat and poultry industry respond to customer complaints that are determined to be associated with adulterated or misbranded meat and poultry products. [node:read-more:link]
Raw milk is trending. Even the West Virginia Senate passed a resolution about it. But what does a dairy farmer say? You may not have known the milk you buy in the grocery store is cooked but it is. The process is called pasteurization. Lauren Perkins a fourth generation dairy farmer who works on her family’s dairy farm called Perk Farm Organic Dairy explained the process saying “[The milk is] heated to a temperature that can kill harmful bacteria.” But raw or unpasteurized milk is trending. [node:read-more:link]
Beyond Beef offers the juicy taste and texture of ground beef but with 25% less saturated fat than beef. Created to deliver on the culinary flexibility of ground beef, Beyond Beef is perfect for tacos, meatballs, sliders, empanadas and more.Beyond Meat’s latest innovation contains only simple, plant-based ingredients and has no GMOs, no soy, and no gluten.
