Meat, cheese, cocoa and seafood: improving the framework conditions for sustainable, biotechnologically produced alternatives

Beginning of July the Netherlands became the first EU country to allow tastings of biotechnologically cultivated meat and seafood. This is a major step towards realising the potential of these novel foods, as biotechnology can be used to produce delicious alternatives to traditional foods. Such alternatives, also called novel foods, tend to be produced in much more sustainable ways and can help reduce factory farming. Novel foods can therefore play an important role in combating climate change and biodiversity loss. As the trade association for the German biotech industry, BIO Deutschland is advocating that the framework conditions for the development, production, tasting and market approval of these novel foods in the EU and Germany be significantly improved, and has today published a position paper on these issues. (read here)

The full text of the press release can be found here