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Lab-grown salmon is now FDA approvednypost.com/2025/06/10/lifestyle/lab-grown-salmon-is-now-fda-approved/
109 sats \ 2 comments \ @k00b 12 Jun food_and_drinks
This sounds like food dystopia, relative to robot pizza makers.
The process can be broken down into three steps: source, grow and harvest. Living cells from Pacific salmon are taken from fish and then placed into cell cultivators that mimic the temperature, pH, and nutrients of a wild fish — allowing the cells to grow, as explained by Wildtype.
Once fully matured and harvested, the living “salmon cells” are fused with plant-based ingredients that imitate the texture and appearance of true salmon.
And according to the FDA, they view lab-grown salmon “as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods,” the FDA wrote in its public response letter.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 12 Jun
Yeah, no thanks. My main issue with things like the FDA isn't that we don't need organizations testing, evaluating, and "approving" things. Its that the FDA is a monopoly. It goes both ways. They likely block things that they shouldn't and allow things they shouldn't. This coupled with the masses appealing to their authority means the masses blindly trust them.
Obviously there is value in testing, evaluating and grading products. I think we'd be better off with no restrictions but rather a competitive market for food products. Sure, there would be corruption. There is NOW corruption between industry and the FDA. But with competition you have pressure that currently does not exist. The ONLY way you solve the corruption problem is a public that is skeptical and have more choices in the role of food oversight.
This is a flaw in many anarchists thinking about the state. The state does many function that would be done by the market. The idea should not be we don't need the FDA but rather we need 100 FDAs that do not have the monopoly on violence.
Its none of my business if you wanna eat lab created meat/fish. But the FDA stamp of approval has far to much authority with many people. Then you have people that don't trust it at all and listen to clowns online. This is the dichotomy of state monopoly. This problem is all across the spectrum of things the state "regulates".
Governance is needed but monopoly governance is bound to be inferior to market governance as well as more susceptible to corruption.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 12 Jun
Back in the early days of the chemical overtake of US food I'm sure the FDA was totally above board in their reviews...
But seriously the non-natural food on shelves today have many health consequences that we are still just figuring out as a population. I suspect that due to the methods used to grow salmon in a lab will have consequences that we will not see until many years from now. No thank you for me. We don't know what we don't know. I'm pro freedom so have at it if you wanna eat whatever but not for me. I take these lessons from history seriously.
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