Florida's governor says he will "save our beef, but a lab-grown meat firm calls it an assault on liberty.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will "save our beef" from the "global elite" and its "authoritarian plans".
"Florida is fighting back against the global elite's plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs," Mr DeSantis said in a statement.
The first-in-the-nation law prohibits anyone from selling or distributing lab-grown meat in Florida.
Similar efforts are under way in Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee.
Lab-grown or "cultivated" meat was first cleared for consumption in the US in 2022.
Studies have suggested that eating cultivated meat can cut carbon emissions and water usage, and free up land for nature, compared to eating traditionally produced meat.
Ah, the 'global elite,' who they also call 'globalists.' And who are they talking about?
The term is now frequently used as a pejorative by far-right movements and conspiracy theorists, as in the New World Order conspiracy theory;[3] it is associated with antisemitism, as antisemites frequently appropriate the term globalist to refer to Jews.[3][4][5]
I can't wait for lab grown meat to become widely available (in my state at least). I think it's really cool. Being able to eat real meat without harming animals sounds so futuristic. It's one piece of future technology that I can actually get behind.
Along the same vein, there was another company recently who made plant based blue cheese that was disqualified from a blue cheese contest after they were going to take first.
"Florida is fighting back against the global elite's plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs," Mr DeSantis said in a statement.
"Force the world" by... Having it as an option.
The party of small government and the free market everybody!
So, if the 'global elite' are not the 1%, and as seen from this whole Gaza thing, they are not 'the jews' (which is what I though Republicans were always coyly referring to when they used that term), who the heck do the Republicans think the 'Global Elite' are?
Maybe? I mean the big criticism is that it's just highly processed food at the end of the day and that the process of production is what is the issue. This is of course an argument made by what you may call food purists, who'd rather you spend money on a proper blender than rely on big corporations to form Scop 2.0.
But that's not what Ronnie boy is thinking about. Oh no. He's thinking about "owning the libs", "showing them what for", and what kind of cretinous, disingenuous bastard he can be. He would gladly invest in something like Scop 2.0 if it made a lot of money, AND performatively ban it in his state if it vaguely had an LGBTQ+ tinge to it.
This is a careful reminder that some states banned solar panels out of spite... because people elect absolute troglodytes to represent them, and then have the balls to talk about "free markets".
GTFO here with your fake self. In fact, take the whole republican party with you.
For someone's who's a big capitalist, it seems like he's never heard of a free market economy. Just let the market decide which meat is best. Or better yet, let the people!
This is not an endorsement of our late-stage capitalist economy, rather a critic of Ronny's hypocrisy.
Who else than a large corp with sufficient funding can develop and market lab-grown meat anyway? Of course this kind of stuff will come from a large corp at first. Is he willing to launch a state-owned lab to fund it publicly? Yeah, I didn't think so.
It's not like people will jump at the opportunity to buy some backyard-shed-grown meat today, as appetizing that might sound.
Ron is one of those people who knows how bad he is, but it's up to the useful of idiots of Florida to figure it out for themselves.
Not everyone in Florida is a moron, far from it. But enough of them are bad enough that it's scary watching them throw their lives away because they let ideas they don't even like live rent free in their heads.
In this upside down world, the Jews standing together with oppressed people protesting apartheid and genocide are called antisemites by the same people who use every antisemitic trope in the books.
He's a staunch free market Republican. Dude is seriously just throwing out dog whistle BS to conspiracy theorists. What is wrong with eating bugs? Does the little pansy give them icky?
The thing I love about the lab grown beef thing is that steaks will be really cheap when it scales
I guess Desantis wants to use expense taxpayer dollars when he eats a steak
That is the kinda fiscal responsibility you can expect from the right
Can this guy make a single statement without using moronic buzzwords? We all know you're just protecting Florida's factory farms from competition. You don't need to bring the Illuminati into this one. And why not let the "free market" sort it out? Cowards.
Florida needs all of the protectionism it can muster - Florida beef is just lousy. It turns out that just because you can raise cattle somewhere spent mean you should.
The best way to combat this is to import large amounts of lab grown meat in sufficient quantities to drive down the price to force the factory farms to either switch over to lab grown or go out of business.
The imported meat would also need to be packaged the same as traditionally grown meat.
Israel in return would release 20 Palestinian prisoners for each child, civilian woman, elderly person or wounded hostage. For each female soldier freed, Israel would release 40 Palestinian prisoners, with half of them serving life prison sentences. They could remain in the occupied territories or sent to exile. As part of the proposal, Israeli forces would withdraw from a corridor dividing the north and south of the enclave in the fourth week but still screen Palestinians on the move.
Israel in return would release 20 Palestinian prisoners for each child, civilian woman, elderly person or wounded hostage. For each female soldier freed, Israel would release 40 Palestinian prisoners, with half of them serving life prison sentences. They could remain in the occupied territories or sent to exile. As part of the proposal, Israeli forces would withdraw from a corridor dividing the north and south of the enclave in the fourth week but still screen Palestinians on the move.