2021-05-25
Children's Health Defence publishes a report that the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) in the USA has approved a novel GMO product for use in fake meat burgers. Clever scientists and technologists can do many things but infallible wisdom is not necessarily amongst their primary attributes.
"Impossible Foods’ rat study was not large or long enough to meet minimum FDA requirements, yet still showed some concerning health risks"
" ... these highly processed junk foods are a disaster for both human health and the environment"
"Impossible Foods has even been granted Child Nutrition Labels, paving the way for their products’ use in K-12 schools"
Well, they get up to all sorts of things in the US but how does that affect us here in the UK?
As we have seen in the past, these US-based innovations have a habit of crossing the Atlantic in short order, especially if there is money to be made in nationally-funded institutions, for example, in the education system, or in hospitals, or care homes.
Now that we have left the EU, such innovation can happen more quickly, since such matters no longer have to navigate the cumbersome EU bureaucracy in order to obtain approval.
