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Italy bans lab-grown meat in nod to farmers
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I agree with a lot of your points but first world countries rightly protect local farmers because relying exclusively on foreign food is not a smart idea.
There's much more to food than just the farmer. There's a whole supply chain, and every link in that chain has as much power over the foodsupply as the farmer. Farmers are not special!
In the Netherlands the farmers recently blocked highways because politicians dared to put the meat-industry under stricter environmental regulations. The farmers argued that it would risk the foodsupply in the Netherlands... Guess what? 80% of their meat-produce is being shipped to china.
Personally I'm not sure I like the idea of a zero-sum world where every country is zealously protecting its own food resources.