REAL Meat Act of 2025
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Right to Eat Authentic and Legitimate Meat Act of 2025 or the REAL Meat Act of 2025
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, directly or indirectly, the production, advancement, or enhancement of cell-cultured meat. Under the bill, cell-cultured meat means meat that is sourced from the cells of animals and artificially produced in a laboratory.
The bill includes an exemption for federal funds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that are used for activities related to cell-cultured meat that is intended for off-planet consumption.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1116: REAL Meat Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1116/
"H.R. 1116: REAL Meat Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1116/.
H.R. 1116, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1116/.
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