Cultivated-Meat Nationalism

Photograph Source: World Economic Forum – CC BY 3.0

Eleven Republican members of Congress recently sent a letter to the director of national intelligence and the USDA’s director of homeland security, expressing their concern China was pulling away from the United States in the field of biotechnology, specifically as it relates to cultivated meat. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter.

“We request that the Office of the Director of...