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.

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.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
    -6•7 months ago

    Pretty much all the comments I’ve seen here were people praising it

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      Pretty much all the comments I’ve seen here were people praising it

      I don’t know how to explain this to you, but Lemmy users are made up of different people.

      It’s entirely possible you’ve encountered a bunch of people praising the TikTok ban. That doesn’t mean any of those people are in this thread.

      This take is as absurd as seeing some Pro-Palestine protesters and saying “oh, so now everyone’s Pro-Palestine? I was just across the street at the counter protest and everyone was Pro-Israel!”