Florida Just Banned Lab-Grown Meat. I Tried to Find Out Why
Beef is displayed at Laurenzo’s Italian Center on January 13, 2014, in North Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Is the conservative war on lab-cultivated meat a matter of protecting consumers, protecting the beef lobby, or just owning the libs?
A version of this story originally appeared in Pirate Wires.
On March 6, the Florida House of Representatives passed legislation prohibiting the manufacture and sale of cultivated, or “lab-grown,” meat in Florida. Governor DeSantis is expected to sign the bill, and when he does, Florida will become the first state to ban cultivated meat, which is made b…
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