Shackling American Innovation: The Crusade to Criminalize Cultivated Meat

Paul Shapiro offers an update on efforts to ban cultivated meat sales and reflects on its negative impact on product innovation and consumer choice.

By Paul Shapiro

July 24, 2024

Imagine it’s the early 2000s. Blockbuster dominates the video marketplace, but obviously doesn’t want competition from cutting-edge startups. Now imagine that the company decided its best bet for maintaining its dominance was to squash streaming innovation while still in its infancy. So instead of investing in innovation, the behemoth spent its profits lobbying lawmakers to simply criminalize video streaming before it could ever become popular.

Fortunately for us consumers, this didn’t happen. Ye…

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About the Author

Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co. and the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World ([email protected]).