Florida and Alabama have banned the sale of lab-grown meat. Which states will follow? Italy has also banned it.
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3.00@SirSalty Don't want the cattle industry to be replaced, along with fear of the unknown.
https://apnews.com/article/labgrown-meat-cultivated-ban-8dee6ce8e1282efe953ca4115db4b2c2
State Sen. Jay Collins, a Republican who sponsored the Florida bill, noted that the legislation doesn’t ban research, just the manufacturing and sale of lab-grown meat. Collins said safety was his primary motivator, but he also wants to protect Florida agriculture.
“Let’s not be in a rush to replace something,” he said. “It’s a billion-dollar industry. We feed a ton of people across the country with our cattle, beef, pork, poultry and fish industries.”
“Alabamians want to know what they are eating, and we have no idea what is in this stuff or how it will affect us,” Republican state Sen. Jack Williams, the sponsor of Alabama’s bill, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “Meat comes from livestock raised by hardworking farmers and ranchers, not from a petri dish grown by scientists.”