One of the reasons that I don’t get that enthused about more funding for science is that the powers that be NIH, FDA and the USDA seem to be wholly owned subsidiaries of big business and not particularly interested in advancing science.
Growth of “in-vitro” or cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.
The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture, part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, won’t fund it, the National Institutes of Health won’t fund it, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration funded it only briefly, Mironov said.