4 CapitalPress.com Friday, September 10, 2021 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. 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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. 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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. S259185-1 S259186-1 LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 87  Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be  sold, for  cash to the highest bidder, on 09/13/2021.  The sale will be held at 10:00am by  COPART OF WASHINGTON INC  2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR  2012 JEEP WRANGLER 2DR VIN = 1C4AJWAG4CL154696 Amount due on lien $1675.00  Reputed owner(s) STEPHANIE L CHAMBERS ADVANTIS CREDIT UNION 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 S259191-1 S259180-1 LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 819 Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be  sold, for  cash to the highest bidder, on 09/13/2021.  The sale will be held at 10:00am by  AFFORDABLE TOWING INC 2994 BLOSSOM DR NE SALEM, OR 2020 NISSAN KICKS 4D VIN = 3N1CP5CV0LL533036 Amount due on lien $2285.00  Reputed owner(s) MARIA T DELGADO FIFTH THIRD BANK NATIONAL ASSOC 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. S260570-1 The pandemic, natu- 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- S260579-1 By CAROL RYAN DUMAS Capital Press 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