'Political efforts': the Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat

Florida is on track to ban cell-cultivated meat while three others float it - but experts say the reasoning has little to do with safety, ethical or environmental questionsAt a press conference in February, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, told a room full of reporters: "We're not going to do that fake meat. That doesn't work." He'd been discussing legislation under debate in the statehouse that would ban cell-cultivated meat - an emerging technique that, instead of slaughtering animals for consumption, grows meat in a lab using a small sample of animal cells.A few weeks later, a Republican member of the Florida legislature - and cattle rancher - Dean Black took to the House floor, saying, "Cultured meat is not meat ? it is made by man, real meat is made by God Himself ? If you really want to try the nitrogen-based protein paste, go to California." Continue reading...