we at VICFA VA Independent Farmer Consumer Assoc support Delegate Glass bill HB322. We would also favor amending the bill to require any included lab grown ingredient(s) be labeled no matter how minimal the quanity. If not on the main labeling then at leastinclude it the ingredient list. This legislation would support small meat producers and encourage local sustainable food production. The reason for the lab grown meats effort is often sited as a way to lessen climate changing emissions from livestock, especially beef. It has been reasonably well proven that rotationally grazed grass feed beef actually sequesters more carbon in the soil; when compared to feed lot beef. And a in study by UCLA, it calculated the environmental damage of producing lab grown meat far out strips the climate changing emissions of grass fed, land based production. As for nutritional quality the most nutritious of any beef production method is by very diverse pastures and lab grown meat won't even come close to feedlot grown beef which is currently the least nutrient rich beef. Please support this bill to help the consumer be informed easily to what they are purchasing and ingesting. thank you for your time to bring this to public attention.

we at VICFA VA Independent Farmer Consumer Assoc support Delegate Glass bill HB322. We would also favor amending the bill to require any included lab grown ingredient(s) be labeled no matter how minimal the quanity. If not on the main labeling then at leastinclude it the ingredient list. This legislation would support small meat producers and encourage local sustainable food production. The reason for the lab grown meats effort is often sited as a way to lessen climate changing emissions from livestock, especially beef. It has been reasonably well proven that rotationally grazed grass feed beef actually sequesters more carbon in the soil; when compared to feed lot beef. And a in study by UCLA, it calculated the environmental damage of producing lab grown meat far out strips the climate changing emissions of grass fed, land based production. As for nutritional quality the most nutritious of any beef production method is by very diverse pastures and lab grown meat won't even come close to feedlot grown beef which is currently the least nutrient rich beef. Please support this bill to help the consumer be informed easily to what they are purchasing and ingesting. thank you for your time to bring this to public attention.