- Volume 19 (2024), Issue 2
- Vol. 19 (2024), No. 2
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- Pages 66 - 71
- pp. 66 - 71
‘Meat me in Italy’: The Italian Ban on Meat-Sounding Names and Cell-Cultured Meat
In November 2023, the Italian Parliament approved a law banning cell-cultured meat and the use of meat-sounding names for alternative protein products. The law aims to protect the national culinary heritage and echoes similar provisions in French Décret n° 2022-947, which banned the use of certain meat names for non-animal products. The Italian law goes further than its French counterpart by introducing a blanket ban on meat derived from cell cultures.