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.
Yeah - it’s an Alex Jones thing. “International bankers” or the “global elite” are conniving with George Soros and Bill Gates to make you live in a “fifteen minute city” and eat da bugs.
Korean bar near me has a dish with silkworm pupae and I am certainly curious. Mealworms and crickets haven’t been bad, but I usually only eat them to psych out Boy Scouts.
Also showing off my pet vinegaroon, Tortilla (RIP), who’d make the whole room smell like vinegar and looked like a monster. Dare them to pet the hissing cockroaches and tell them about the professor at my university who let a tick feed off of her for weeks to prove that species was able to parasitize humans.
Most of my working life has been spent grossing out children, it’s pretty great.