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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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- 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.
Ron is one of those people who knows how bad he is, but it’s up to the useful of idiots of Florida to figure it out for themselves.
Not everyone in Florida is a moron, far from it. But enough of them are bad enough that it’s scary watching them throw their lives away because they let ideas they don’t even like live rent free in their heads.
I live in Florida in the number of non-idiots is really just a rounding error.
As someone who has lived in Florida his whole life. Florida and everyone in it could be wiped off the map and nothing of value would be lost.