U.S. Senator Jon Tester has introduced the School Lunch Integrity Act, a bipartisan bill, with Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) to ban cell-cultivated meat from being provided through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP).
Currently, the United States Department of Agriculture sets nutritional requirements for the meals that are able to be served to students through the NSLP and SBP, but has not issued any guidance on the use of cell-cultivated protein in those programs. Tester’s bipartisan bill would fix the lack of standards by banning cell-cultivated meat from the programs.