Food quality and safety
“After the final approval of the law to stop the laboratory-built foods in bioreactors, the battle moves to Europe where Italy, which is the world leader in food quality and safety, has the duty to lead the way in policies to protect citizens' health". This is what the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini stated on the occasion of the demonstration of farmers and breeders who left the countryside and stables to take to the streets to celebrate the approval by the Chamber of the law which introduces the ban on the production and marketing of foods based on mobile phone for food use or for animal feed. “It is not the first time that we are pioneers in Europe” specifies Prandini in recalling that “thanks to the pressing of a collection of signatures by Coldiretti, Italy was the first country to adopt national rules for the obligation of labeling of origin of food towards which the European Union is progressively aligning itself with the overcoming of doubts and disputes, at national and community level, which are now part of the past".
Made in Italy:
The law on artificial food is a result that protects the quality, health and records of Made in Italy with the Mediterranean diet on the birthday of its inscription in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO, which took place on 16 November 2010. food model that has guaranteed Italians record values of longevity and which - reports Coldiretti - has established itself on a global level so much so as to be classified as the best diet in the world in 2023 on the basis of the best diets ranking developed by the American media US News & World's Report's, known globally for writing rankings and consumer advice. The law is therefore a commitment to defend the Mediterranean diet but also - underlines Coldiretti - an important signal for the European Union which, in compliance with the precautionary principle, has already led to the banning of use of hormones which are instead used in the production processes of cell-based meat. Furthermore - Coldiretti specifies - the Agriculture Commission of the European Parliament has already expressed its opinion on artificially grown meat in the resolution on proteins, rejecting by a large majority an amendment which identified laboratory-grown proteins as one of the possible solutions to the problem of the dependence of European livestock farms on supplies from abroad.
The words of Coldiretti
The provision passed by the national Parliament therefore - Coldiretti highlights - places our country at the forefront and also finds favorable ground among a large part of European public opinion where a new awareness is spreading about the dangers linked to a technology with obscure contours, with many unknowns that risk changing people's lives and the environment around us forever. A possible request for marketing authorization that were to reach the EU - according to Coldiretti - could not be assessed with the ordinary procedures for novel foods but for the ingredients used the same procedures as for medicines must be applied in the European Union, which require of in-depth experimental tests. A need in light of the fact that, from allergies to tumors, there are 53 potential health dangers linked to laboratory-produced foods identified in the FAO and WHO Report which speaks of "Cell-based food", a definition considered clearer than the term “cultivated” (for example “cultured meat”), preferred by the manufacturing industries because it is more attractive but considered to be misleading by the two world authorities, who also note that the word “synthetic” is also used by the academic world as well as by the media.
Consequences on health
It is no coincidence that in countries where sales such as Israel have been permitted, before consumption, signatures on a release from liability and health consequences are requested - specifies Coldiretti. But – continues Coldiretti – there are also concerns on an environmental level. The results of the research carried out by Derrick Risner and his colleagues at the University of California at Davis – concludes Coldiretti – have highlighted that the global warming potential of synthetic meat defined in carbon dioxide equivalents emitted for each kilogram produced is from 4 to 25 times higher than that of traditional beef (source: Coldiretti).
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