Iowa can't block SNAP users from buying alt-meat

USDA turns down request to limit how Iowans spend their federal food assistance dollars.

The USDA denied an Iowa Department of Health and Human Services' waiver request, seeking to block Iowans on federal food assistance programs from buying lab-grown meat and egg substitute products with the funds.

In its request, the state department said cultivated protein and egg substitute products “may not” be as nutritious as meat and eggs…