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USDA opens debate over labeling lab-raised meat
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
The USDA is taking comments
on what to call food cultivated from
animal cells, asking how labels
should distinguish between beef on
the hoof and beef from a lab.
The USDA has posed more than
a dozen questions, soliciting terms
to describe the source and nature of
products that are promoted as meat,
but were never part of a live animal.
In asking for suggestions, the
USDA used “cultured” for food
comprised of cells multiplied in a
controlled environment. The agency
says it’s not establishing or even sug-
gesting a future practice.
The fledgling cultured meat
industry says its products come from
livestock or poultry and meet the
definition of meat. Ranching orga-
nizations are seeking to retain exclu-
sive use of traditional terms.
R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard
David Parry/Press Association File
A burger made from cultured beef, which has been developed by
Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The USDA
is taking comments on how to label lab-grown meat and poultry.
said Tuesday that “beef” and “meat,”
and words such as “sirloin” or “rib-
eye” should not be used on labels for
cell-based products.
“These tissues are grown in a
petri dish,” he said. “It doesn’t meet
the fundamental definition of meat
or beef and certainly doesn’t meet
the expectations of consumers.”
Nine U.S. companies are work-
ing on cultured animal products,
according to the Alliance for Meat,
Poultry and Seafood Innovation.
One alliance member, Eat Just of
Agency targeting assistance, new markets
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Keechelus Lake and four other Cascade Range reser-
voirs serve the farm-rich Yakima Basin.
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Yakima River Basin res-
ervoirs in south-central
Washington have held up
during this year’s drought
and heat and still contain
more water than usual for
this time of year, Bureau of
Reclamation officials said
Thursday.
Bumping, Cle Elum,
Kachess, Keechelus and
Rimrock reservoirs were at
48% of capacity Sept. 1, or
109% of normal. The res-
ervoirs haven’t held that
much water at the start of
September since 2017.
The reservoirs should
retain enough water to
bode well for 2022, espe-
cially if a La Nina forms
as expected and makes the
upcoming winter cold and
wet, officials said.
“It shows how import-
ant the snowpack and the
reservoir storage is for the
basin,” said Chris Lynch,
the bureau’s river opera-
tions manager.
The reservoirs sup-
ply water to irrigate about
464,000 acres, according
to the bureau. The Yakima
basin was hit hard by the
“snowpack drought” in
2015. Some irrigators were
cut back by more than 50%.
This year, irrigators have
had full water allotments,
even though the U.S.
Drought Monitor judges
this year’s drought worse
for the state as a whole.
Like the rest of Eastern
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Yakima reservoirs defy drought, stay high
average releases from
the reservoirs during that
really hot stretch and now
we’re back down near nor-
mal, even below normal at
times,” Lynch said.
Lynch said he expects
the reservoirs to hold
roughly 315,000 acre-feet
at the end of October, about
the long-term average.
The odds favor a La
Nina prevailing next win-
ter, according to the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administra-
tion. During a La Nina,
Washington’s
winters
are usually cold and wet,
building up snow in the
mountains to melt into res-
ervoirs in the spring.
“Combined with a
healthy start in storage (in
the reservoirs), it looks
good,” Bureau of Recla-
mation hydrologist Mik
Lewicki said.
The U.S. Drought Mon-
itor on Thursday reported
the 38% of Washing-
ton — all east of the Cas-
cades — was in “excep-
tional drought,” the worst
category.
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Institute opposed the cattlemen’s
association petition.
The meat institute issued a joint
statement last week with the Alliance
for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Inno-
vation, calling for labeling that “fos-
ters transparency, consumer confi-
dence and a level playing field.”
The USDA’s questions touch on a
wide-range of labeling issues.
If a package of lasagna has cul-
tured beef cells, should the ingre-
dient be labeled? What if cultured
meat cells flavor broths?
Should common descriptions of
meat cuts — such as pork loin, fillet
and steak — be allowed?
What if a product is partly from a
laboratory and partly from a slaugh-
tered animal?
The USDA’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service will take com-
ments until Nov. 2.
Comments may be submit-
ted online at regulations.com. The
docket number is FSIS-2020-0036.
Washington, the Yakima
basin has been dry for
months. The basin received
53% of normal rainfall from
March through August.
The reservoirs, however,
filled in the spring, fed by
a larger than normal snow-
pack. Although the spring
was dry, temperatures were
mostly moderate, prevent-
ing the snow from melting
too fast.
“That really was the sav-
ing grace of this season,”
Lynch said.
The reservoirs peaked at
nearly full on June 30, rel-
atively late — and later is
better for irrigators. Since
then more water has been
flowing out than in. Reser-
voir levels have remained
relatively high, even though
irrigation demand surged
during high heat.
In late August, tempera-
tures dropped closer to nor-
mal, Lynch said. “That
really did help moderate
the demand on the system
and releases from the reser-
voirs,” he said.
“We were running
around 115 to 120% of
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ing on China’s commitments
in the Phase I Agreement.
It’s also working on new
market opportunities domes-
tically through local and
regional food systems and
giving producers the abil-
ity to access contracts for
USDA’s emergency food
procurement purchases.
On the “new” side of
building back better, USDA
is looking at ways agricul-
ture can take advantage of a
difficult circumstance with
changing climate, he said.
“As we focus on sustain-
ability, as we embrace cli-
mate-smart agriculture and
the value-added opportuni-
ties that that creates, how
can we capture that value
added, how can we reward
farmers for taking the steps
necessary to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions,”
he said.
As for “better” markets,
it’s really about open and
transparent markets, fair
markets, he said.
“That’s one of the rea-
sons why we’re looking at
strengthening the Packers &
Stockyards Act,” he said.
USDA is also looking
at ways to help existing
meat and poultry process-
ing capacity stay in busi-
ness, particularly small or
very small facilities, provid-
ing grants to modernize and
expand operations, he said.
The agency also just
announced a $500 million
effort to significantly expand
new processing capacity, he
said.
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ral disasters and looking at
ways to create more oppor-
tunity for agricultural pro-
ducers have kept things hop-
ping at USDA since the new
administration came into
office in January.
USDA Secretary Tom
Vilsack on Sept. 2 said
the agency has two main
focuses.
“One, obviously, is to
continue to do what we can
to get on the other side of
the pandemic and essen-
tially mitigate the conse-
quences of that situation on
the food-supply chain and
on farmers, ranchers and
producers,” he said during
Farm Journal’s “Farm Coun-
try Update” podcast.
The other focus is on
what President Biden likes
to call “build
back better,”
with oppor-
tunities that
create more
profit
for
producers,
Tom Vilsack he said.
On the pandemic side,
USDA has been busy get-
ting assistance payments to
farmers, getting support to
local and regional food sys-
tems and responding to the
specific needs in different
commodity sectors, he said.
USDA is not finished yet
by any means. There’s still
more help and assistance to
come in a number of dif-
ferent areas. But so far, it’s
been about $11 billion in
assistance, he said.
On building back better,
the question is how to do
that, he said.
“I think it boils down to
more, new and better mar-
kets,” he said.
More markets start with
exports, and USDA is fore-
casting record exports for
marketing year 2021. That
translates into more farm
income, which is expected
to be above the 20-year
average for the first time in
a number of years, he said.
USDA is focusing on
ways to improve exports
and following through on
the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada
Agreement to hold Can-
ada to its commitments and
open new markets in Mex-
ico. It’s also working to cre-
ate new market opportunity
in Southeast Asia and focus-
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San Francisco, received permission
in 2020 to sell lab-grown chicken in
Singapore as an ingredient in nug-
gets. No product has been approved
for sale in the U.S.
While the Food and Drug Admin-
istration regulates laboratory work,
the USDA will oversee process-
ing, packaging and labeling if cell-
based animal products are brought
to market.
The U.S. Cattlemen’s Associa-
tion petitioned the USDA in 2018
to reserve “beef” and “meat” for
products harvested in the traditional
manner. The association restated its
position last week when the USDA
said it was taking comments on
labels.
Other segments of the cat-
tle industry have supported cell-
based meat and poultry research
and development. Tyson Meats
and Cargill have invested in a cul-
tured meat company. The packing
industry’s North American Meat
