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

French MEP Céline Imart (left), Felix Leonardt (Oyster Bay Venture Capital) and Adrian Friederich (FoodLabs). Press photos/Impact Loop design
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.

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