Lab-grown meat isn’t on store shelves yet, but some states have already banned it
https://apnews.com/article/labgrown-meat-cultivated-ban-8dee6ce8e1282efe953ca4115db4b2c2
Lab-grown meat isn’t on store shelves yet, but some states have already banned it
https://apnews.com/article/labgrown-meat-cultivated-ban-8dee6ce8e1282efe953ca4115db4b2c2
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From the article: Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any U.S. grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have their way, it never will be.
Earlier this month, both Florida and Arizona banned the sale of cultivated meat and seafood, which is grown from animal cells. In Iowa, the governor signed a bill prohibiting schools from buying lab-grown meat. Federal lawmakers are also looking to restrict it.
It’s unclear how far these efforts will go. Some cultivated meat companies say they’re considering legal action, and some states – like Tennessee – shelved proposed bans after lawmakers argued they would restrict consumers’ choices.
Still, it’s a deflating end to a year that started with great optimism for the cultivated meat industry.
The U.S. approved the sale of lab-grown meat for the first time in June 2023, allowing two California startups, Good Meat and Upside Foods, to sell cultivated chicken. Two high-end U.S. restaurants briefly added the products to their menus. Some cultivated meat companies began expanding production. One of Good Meat’s products went on sale at a grocery in Singapore.
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR BILLIONNAIRE RANCHERS
You can’t do that here, this is the land of free don’tcha know.
But why did they ban it? I have seen a quote somewhere that said something like “because meat made of chemicals isn’t good” but I’m not sure how accurate this is. But they may just be stupid because it makes absolutely no sense to ban lab grown meat.
Can’t wait for these companies to be doing major distribution and for these holdover states to have crazy high “real meat” prices. Feel like that’s what they’re asking for.
So it will actually not effect the new thing that is from…. mushrooms. Precision Fermentation – it is coming for milk next year and is already cheaper.
Well yeah, the poultry, beef, and pork lobbyists don’t want to lose their market share.
Sure lets ban it. Could potentially be one of the biggest leverages to fight climate change, but before some old white rich farts start loosing their wealth we should just collectively get fucked…
My favorite thing about all this is going on Facebook and watching Facebook moms like tearing apart freezer burned chicken with their bare hands to try and claim that it’s actually grown in a lab as if I would give a shit anyways
Is this the big government deciding the winners and losers in the market? Must be the Dems doing this because Republicans have spent my whole life promising to never let the big scary government decide winners and losers.
Let’s check and see what the political party is of the politicians that have decided winners and losers in the market. Couldn’t have been the Republicans right? Their whole schtick is avoiding this.
Red states are ramping up their idiotic culture war bullshit to 11.
It’s like trying to ban cars in favor of the horse industry, and screwing up the ‘LiBruL aGeNDa’. These two are really the only motives. There is no further intelligence behind their reasoning what so ever.