Italy's alt-meat ban may earn EU fines

Italian cultivated meat ban puts the country at risk of EU sanctions.

Italy's Parliament on Thursday passed a law banning the production and marketing of cultivated meat, risking fines from the EU, according to Piercamillo Falasca, the deputy secretary of the Italian +Europa political party.

Though cultivated meat isn't now permitted for human consumption in the EU, if the union eventually allows the consumption or sale of…