[DoreenMichele]

The food industry is highly regulated. A couple of key points:

“The key takeaway here is that with this landmark decision, we are now the first company with cultivated meat approvals in two countries – the US and Singapore,” Eat Just VP and head of global communications Andrew Noyes told AFN. “And we’re the only company in the world that has ever sold to consumers.”

In the US, the FDA regulates cell collection, banking, growth and differentiation for cultivated meat and poultry. Regulatory oversight then switches to the USDA once the cells are harvested and through the processing and labeling stages.

[bayesian_horse]

Food regulation in the US sucks. In the EU we have both a "higher level of regulation" and it's more effective in most regards. Maybe some food production is cheaper in the US, partly from less regulation, but not by much and you wouldn't know it from consumer prices.

Overall, most of the EU enjoys a high quality of cheap food (yes, it increased quite a bit the last year...) and the food safety is actually higher.