- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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.
The process of making cultivated meat involves extracting cells from an animal, which are then fed with nutrients such as proteins, sugars and fats. The end product is genetically indistinguishable from traditionally produced meat.
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.
If you don’t want it, don’t buy it, problem solved!
bUt MuH fReEdOmS!?
The only thing that can stop a bad meat maker is a good meat maker?!
A good meat maker with a gun!
Hrm… is that what makes them good at making meat, one wonders!?!? :-P
And it’s not as if you’ll be able to buy it next week anyway. It’s an absolute non issue (should one be among the strange crowd that considers it an issue to begin with) that absolutely requires no urgent action or fanfare.
At the most, there ought be the normal overseeing of foodstuff. But then that’s not what it’s about of course.
What happened to freedom to choose an app?
I don’t get it - an “app”? Did you mean like… an appetizer?! 😁
Tik Tok
Oh. Yeah… while fascists might be good at claiming to fight “for” freedom, they aren’t actually the best at keeping their word on that score:-P.