'Lab-grown meat “does not constitute a sustainable alternative to primary farm-based production”, and raises ethical, economic, social and public health questions that “are essential for the future society”, the note to the Council of Ministers, that will be discussed at the next meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Tuesday (23 January), argues.'<p>What about the ethical question of slaughtering an animal, especially when there are alternatives such as lab-grown meat? I eat meat and oppose regulations to make it more expensive to combat climate change, but I also don't think there should be needless obstruction of lab-grown meat. Consumers who don't trust it won't eat it.