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A ground-breaking scientific study reveals the extent of the lobbying orchestrated by the meat industry and its repercussions on European agricultural policy, 4 November 2024
- https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-info-de-france-inter/l-info-de-france-inter-3564170
- https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/alimentation/enquete-lobbying-comment-l-industrie-de-la-viande-a-influence-la-politique-agricole-europeenne_6876002.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-fr-fr
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The legal battle over cell-cultured meat continues, 11 October 2024
The European Commission and several EU member states have opposed the Hungarian Draft act prohibiting the production and placing on the market of laboratory-grown meat. According to documents published on the Commission's TRIS database, the draft act would not comply with the European Novel Food Regulation and would jeopardise the free movement of goods in the internal market.
- https://technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notification/26066
- https://www.euractiv.fr/section/agriculture-alimentation/news/la-commission-et-les-etats-de-lue-rejettent-linterdiction-de-la-viande-cultivee-en-laboratoire-voulue-par-budapest/
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Reducing the plant protein deficit of the European Union, 8 October 2024
The European arable crop sector supplied 64 million tonnes of crude protein in 2023-2024. However, this volume does not cover all the EU needs of the food, feed and industrial sectors...
The European Commission has published a wide overview of the plant protein market in the EU, from supply and demand to CAP interventions and national initiatives.
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Food labelling: Judgment of the EU Court in Case C-438/23 - Protéines France, 4 October 2024
Protéines France and Others: On 4 October 2024, the Court of Luxembourg ruled that a Member State may not prohibit the use of terms traditionally associated with products of animal origin to designate a product containing vegetable proteins.
[CJUE, aff. C-438/23 du 4 octobre 2024, Protéines France e.a.: la Cour de Luxembourg admet ce 4 octobre 2024 qu'un Etat membre ne peut pas interdire l'utilisation de termes traditionnellement associés aux produits d'origine animale pour désigner un produit contenant des protéines végétales.]
(case available in French and in Danish)
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-10/cp240168fr.pdf ;
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62023CJ0438
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Publication of the AlimAlternatives Study, September 2024
An independent study (350 pages) that provides an overview of the evolution of dietary patterns, the growing consumption of plant-based substitutes for animal products, and the outlook for various alternative protein sources. Details of the 10 chapters and membership conditions for the program, which also includes a monthly monitoring service, are available.
More info…
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The UK becomes the first European country to approve lab-grown meat (starting with pet food), 17th July 2024
More info here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/17/uk-first-european-country-to-approve-cultivated-meat-starting-with-pet-food
and here in French: https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/alimentation-la-viande-cultivee-en-laboratoire-autorisee-au-royaume-uni
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After Italy, two U.S. states are banning manufacturing, selling, and distributing cultivated meat and poultry products.
Food Safety News, "Little to be found, but the lab-grown meat products are subject to bans" - By Dan Flynn
More info…
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The Council of State, 10th April 2024
The Council of State, in interim proceedings, suspended on April 10, 2024, the government decree dated February 26, 2024, which prohibited naming products containing vegetable proteins with terms used for meat or charcuterie, such as "steak". It refers the matter to the CJEU through a preliminary ruling to determine whether a Member State can adopt national measures regulating or prohibiting such denominations.
Link to “Conseil d'État” - Case to be followed...
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Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat, 12th March 2024
State legislators from Florida to Arizona are seeking to ban meat grown from animal cells in labs
[Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida.]
Inside Climat News - By Wyatt Myskow, Lee Hedgepeth
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The French government published a new decree, 26th February 2024
The French government published a new decree on 26th February 2024 banning the naming of plant-based protein products with words referring to meat.
Link to Public Sénat
Link to the French Decree
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20 February 2024 - Publication of a study
On 20 February 2024, the Climate Action Network and the French Society of Nutrition (SFN) published a study calling for a 50% reduction in meat consumption in France, and a switch to better quality, sustainably produced meat.
Link to the report
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1 February 2024 - Press
French "Prime Minister Gabriel Attal would like to see "clear legislation at European level on the naming of what synthetic meat is", a process that involves producing meat from animal stem cells. What exactly is he talking about? We explain".
Ouest-France - Camille DESCROIX - Published on 1 February 2024
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