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Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021

Would a proposed Oregon ballot initiative ban animal meat and replace it with ‘synthetic meat’?

Christiana Dillard, Lead Stories
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A person on Facebook is very worried that an Oregon ballot initiative would ban animal meat and mandate artificial meat.

The description of the initiative says it would not ban the sale of meat and it makes no mention of either lab-created meat or plant-based meat.

However, if it passed, an animal could be processed for consumption only after it "dies of natural causes, such as old age."

This person also believes that plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger are actually "lab 'plant based protein'" that are "lab grown Petri dish vats of cells."

That's not true, though the latter is being explored but has only been approved for sale in Singapore.

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