Alabama and Florida have both banned the production and sale of lab-grown meat
Alabama has become the second US state to ban the production and sale of so-called “lab-grown meat.”
Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed the ban into law on May 7, less than a week after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made the Sunshine State the first state in the union to ban this novel food product.
In signing the Florida bill, Governor DeSantis said that his aim was to protect his state’s “vibrant agricultural industry” against globalist elites who want to blame traditional agriculture, especially livestock agriculture, for causing climate change.
“What we’re protecting here is the industry against acts of man, against an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem, that uses things like raising cattle as destroying our climate,” DeSantis said.
“This will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming, they will say you can’t drive an internal combustion vehicle, they will say agriculture is bad, meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos in their private jets.”
Arizona and Tennessee are also considering similar legislation at the present.
As well as these state-level bans, there are regulations at the federal and state level preventing manufacturers of lab-grown meat from calling their products “meat” and requiring them to label their products as “lab-grown.”
Despite its status as an official “food of the future,” lab-grown meat has been dogged by persistent scandals and suggestions that the product will fail to live up to its hype, may not be scalable and could even be significantly worse for the environment than the animal products it is intended to replace.
In February, a devastating New York Times guest essay called lab-grown meat “The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner.”
“Interviews with almost 60 industry investors and insiders, including many who have been employed by or been part of the leadership teams of these companies, reveal a litany of squandered resources, broken promises and unproven science,” author Joe Fassler wrote.
“Founders, hemmed in by their own unrealistic proclamations, cut corners, such as using ingredients derived from slaughtered animals. Investors, swept up in the excitement of the moment, wrote check after check despite significant technological obstacles. Costs refused to enter the realm of plausible as launch targets came and went. All the while, nobody could achieve anything close to meaningful scale. And yet companies rushed to build expensive facilities and pushed scientists to exceed what was possible, creating the illusion of a thrilling race to market.”
In response to news of the Alabama bill passing into law, Upside Foods, one of just two companies to received FDA and USDA approval to sell lab-grown meat in the US, started a change.org petition to urge consumers to tell politicians to “stop policing” the foods they eat.
“Legislation that bans cultivated meat is a reckless move that ignores food safety experts and science, stifles consumer choice, and hinders American innovation,” said Sean Edgett, chief legal officer of Upside Foods, in a statement.
“Major meat companies have invested in cultivated meat to enhance supply chain resilience and meet rising global demand for meat. We should be embracing innovation for a better food future.”
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