With Biden's new executive order on bio-manufacturing and food, the U.S. moves up in the race to mainstream cultivated meat — but still is far from taking the lead.
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Last week the US joined other countries — Singapore, Israel and China among them — that elevated the development of a cultivated meat industry to one of national importance.
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that recognized the role of bio-technology and bio-manufacturing, including cultivated animal proteins, in the country’s economy and also its national security.
In the document, Biden called on USDA to pursue the science of "cultivating alternative food sources.”…