‘Beyond stupid’: Investors slam lab-grown meat restrictions – and billions in livestock subsidies

24 Feb 2026
06:00
Two prominent foodtech investors have hit out at separate parts of EU policy, with one criticising the bloc’s ‘legacy’ livestock subsidy system and another slamming a parliamentary move to ban lab-grown products from being called ‘meat’.
“It’s beyond stupid,” Felix Leonhardt, managing partner at Oyster Bay Venture Capital, tells Impact Loop.
“It’s beyond stupid,” Felix Leonhardt, managing partner at Oyster Bay Venture Capital, tells Impact Loop.