What’s the definition of “meat”? Once upon a time that would have been an easy enough question to answer, but the advent of meat-substitute products such as the Impossible Burger and the arrival of cultured meat — aka lab-grown meat — has given regulators in Missouri pause for thought. On Tuesday, it became the first state in the US to enact a law stating that the word “meat” cannot be used to sell anything that “is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry.”
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