Should Lab-Grown Muscle Tissue To Replace Beef Be Called ‘Meat’?

The beef industry is fighting tooth and nail to block lab-grown concoctions from being called “meat”, and rightly so. Artificial producers want to capitalize on the reputation and popularity of red meat by deceiving customers to accept their product. Furthermore, testing these artificial products has been virtually non-existent, so the effect on humans is unknown. Nevertheless, producers call their products “functionally equivalent” to the real thing.  ⁃ TN Edi