FLPC will assist the Good Food Institute,
whose goal is to disrupt
animal agriculture by supporting
plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, to research and identify the federal laws and policies that facilitate
or impede
plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs.
I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms,
or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for
plants,
animals and other living things
whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.
According to the Code of Federation Regulations: 21 CFR 501.22 —
Animal foods; labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings, and chemical preservatives, it has the following definition: «The term natural flavor
or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence
or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate,
or any product of roasting, heating
or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit
or fruit juice, vegetable
or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf
or similar
plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products,
or fermentation products thereof,
whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.»
Bruce Kendall is a quantitative ecologist
whose research in population dynamics involves modeling and analysis of abundance (the number of individuals in a
plant or animal population) and demographic (birth and death rate) data.
This naturally brings me to the green movement,
whose shills usually ascribe every unpleasantness in the fallen
animal or plant world to direct human actions, to things such as breathing.