Did you know lab-grown meat is approved for sale in the US–which means it could be coming to your child’s school? 

Lab-grown meat is an experimental food. It is made in factory “bioreactors.” Companies take animal cells, put them in a bioreactor, and then add a chemical growth serum with hormones and other growth factors. Eventually, there’s enough cellular mass to make a patty or meatball. 

There are several reasons parents are concerned about lab-grown meat:

• There are no studies on its long-term health effects.
• Companies don’t have to disclose what exactly is used in the chemical growth serum.
• Some companies use “immortalized” cells that grow like a tumor, according to Bloomberg News.
• Some lab-grown meat samples have had concerning levels of lead, according to Bloomberg.
• A whistleblower has filed a 257-page complaint about the government approval of lab-grown meat.

Lab-grown meat is not something that has ever been in the human diet, and yet its advocates are deceptively calling it “clean meat” and acting like it’s a better substitute for natural meat from a farm.

Our children are not science experiments! Sign this petition to keep lab-grown meat out of schools.