[arblomp]

> The bill will also keep companies that produce food from...cell cultures, not slaughtered animals, from using the label “meat,”

Do we need to make up a new word for “chunks of bovine muscle tissue” if it wasn’t cut out of a whole-ish cow?

Sounds to me like it’s about entrenched farming interests throwing red tape at a perceived threat, not “truth in advertising”. No plant burger or vegan cheeze on the market is nefariously hiding their true identity. They actively market their non-meat-ness, to appeal to their main demographic of meat-avoiders, in big green letters on their packaging. There’s no confusion between their earthy/futurey brand names, versus the old-fashioned-farmer style branding of their slaughtered-animal (their words!) counterparts.

[Digory]

I think it makes sense to standardize some word for the difference, especially since you’re talking about a commodity.

I imagine cheap meat is going to be qualitatively different than cheap Meetabix or whatever they will call it for some years. “It came from a cow” will impose some kind of minimum quality standard — and it’s not clear that standard will always be met in a non standardized market of bovine cell growers.

And the inputs are different. Should an increase in cow meat futures drive up grain prices or plastic clamshell prices?

[igetspam]

What's the quality standard you're protecting? Suffering? Slaughter? Loss of animal life?

[jschwartzi]

I guess Texas has finally figured out what Coleco already knew back in the 80's. Warm Dead Bird is a much more accurate name than fried chicken.

[mc32]

I agree with you on the muscle tissue grown in a lab, if it's more or less the same as bovine tissue from an ex-animal, I think it's fair to call it beef.

New synthetic materials though should find their own nouns to use and not coöpt terms with longstanding meanings.

[bg4]

Beef like product? Worked for cheese wiz.

[fmakunbound]

Except that’s not how language evolves. Good luck with that though.