Category: Media Coverage
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Russia “Resurrects the Soviet Super Chicken,” Bloomberg Reports
Russia has created a poultry-breeding program to reduce its dependence on meat imports, Bloomberg reports. The country has used Soviet technology—which created “a bigger and tastier version of Gallus gallus domesticus” that apparently nearly went extinct following the collapse of the government—to establish a program that aims to reduce foreign imports of food products. Bloomberg…
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Report Predicts Large Market for Cannabis-Infused Products
Food Navigator reports that a market research company has predicted a “coming flood of mainstream investment in cannabis in general and the edibles sector in particular.” The firm suggests that legalization of cannabis products across the United States could create a market between $40 billion and $70 billion. Growth in the edibles category outpaced growth…
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Edible Cotton May Be Cultivated Soon, Bloomberg Reports
Edible cottonseeds have been approved for commercial cultivation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and await Food and Drug Administration approval, according to Bloomberg. Texas A&M University has reportedly been developing the product—which apparently tastes “like hummus”—for more than two decades. Bloomberg compares the nutritional value of cottonseeds to other tree nuts such as almonds or…
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New York Times Asks: Can Lab-Grown Meat Be Kosher?
The New York Times has reported on the Orthodox Union’s efforts to determine whether meat grown in a lab from animal cells can be kosher. The reporter follows a rabbi tasked with researching the process. The rabbi distinguishes between products grown from muscle cells—which must be from an animal properly slaughtered in kosher standards rather…
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FSA Finds One-Fifth of Meat Samples Contain Unspecified DNA
The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reportedly found that one-fifth of meat samples tested contained DNA not attributable to the animal source indicated on the label. FSA conducted 665 tests from 487 businesses suspected of “compliance issues,” including restaurants and supermarkets, and purportedly found that some samples contained DNA from as many as four…
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Professors Argue That “Mylk” Label Might Clear Up Confusion
In a forthcoming Brooklyn Law Review article, professors from George Washington University Law School and Lund University argue that one solution to the definition dispute between cow’s milk and plant-based milk producers may be to label plant-based milks as “mylk.” Gambert et al., “Got Mylk? The Disruptive Possibilities of Plant Milk,” Brooklyn L. Rev., forthcoming…
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The Guardian Reports on Vanilla, Cream Content in U.K. Ice Cream
A U.K. television show has aired a report on the ingredients in locally available vanilla ice creams, finding that many products do not contain cream, fresh milk or vanilla. “One in five of the ice-creams examined by Which? contained none of the three ingredients shoppers might reasonably expect to find in vanilla ice-cream,” The Guardian reports.…
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China Allows Trout To Be Labeled As Salmon
According to the New York Times, Chinese regulators have announced that rainbow trout can be sold as salmon within the country. Rainbow trout and salmon are closely related, the China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Alliance found, and the breeds have apparently been sold interchangeably for several years. Because rainbow trout is cultivated in freshwater,…