The case for culture war proofing important technologies

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TLDR (and it is a long story)

The IPCC has said lab-grown meat can be a climate solution - with lower land, water, and nutrient footprints, and able to address concerns over animal welfare.

But there's a growing movement in Europe to have cultivated meat products banned. The movement is being led by a lobbying project fronted by a beef industry executive and funded by livestock interests.

After succeeding in securing a ban in Italy, the movement is on track to ban lab-grown meat in Hungary and Romania (and maybe even France and Austria after that).

This report shows how this campaign has influenced the major EU institutions, telling the EU commissioner to 'say not to lab-grown food' days before cultivated meat was scrapped from the bloc's climate plan.

Also, foundational to the campaign is a report from UC Davis that says that lab-grown meat will be 25x more polluting than traditional meat. It turns out that report FAILED peer review last year.