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.
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“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.
“Force the world” by… Having it as an option.
The party of small government and the free market everybody!
If it weren’t for the giant beef producing industry in Florida, this might seem only performative…
Because THAT is what I care about as a Floridian. Sure, Ron.
Lemmy: Tik Tok should be banned. Your freedom means nothing!
Also lemmy: woah there, what happened to consumer choice in Florida?
Don’t know where you got that from, a good part of the Lemmists? Lemmings? know the quote by heart:
The net views censorship as damage and routes around it.
Every comment on Tik Tok
Apples and (lab-grown) oranges.
Pretty much all of the comments I’ve seen on Lemmy about a TikTok ban have been about how it’s political theater and would ultimately be pointless in preventing data harvesting.
Pretty much all the comments I’ve seen here were people praising it
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!”
Condemn the US Congressional decision and admit it was made due to lobbying by Alphabet and Meta.
Okay: the TikTok ban was fucking dumb. Satisfied? That has nothing to do with this post.
and admit it was made due to lobbying by Alphabet and Meta.
No it was the lizard people! I have proof! Someone wrote it on the back of their car.
They don’t like lab grown meat because there isn’t enough cruelty built in to the process.
Or natural resource consumption
“global elite”
That’s weird, all my dogs just started barking.
It’s with a heavy heart that I must warn you that your dogs are racist.
Idiocracy gave us too much credit
Seriously, the movie took 500 years for them to reach that point. We’ll be there in less than 100.
You are part of the elite you stupid stupid fuck
For your convenience:
The company who’s product they are banning.
Along the same vein, there was another company recently who made plant based blue cheese that was disqualified from a blue cheese contest after they were going to take first.
The cheese was disqualified because it used an ingredient that hadn’t been approved for human consumption.
How is that different from nacho cheese?!??!
Or pop tarts
Do you have a source? This is the first I’ve heard that claim. Seems a legit reason to disqualify something from a “food” competition, but I’d like to verify before judging.
It’s in the Boing Boing article linked in the comment I first responded to.
After initially being named a finalist, Climax Blue cheese was later disqualified by the Good Food Foundation, reportedly due to issues around one of the ingredients (kokum butter) not having GRAS certification.
Thank you!
I did some digging and found this follow up article about the whole ordeal:
Takeaway: the rules got changed a week earlier, and the fake cheese company didn’t switch to their coco butter version of the blue cheese. (Coco butter is GRAS).
The rule change also shouldn’t have been necessary. ‘Food must be edible’ isn’t something that should have to be explicitely written down. Sure, it’s probably safe, but ‘probably’ isn’t really good enough for a food competition.
Eh. I get your sentiment, but there’s a pretty big difference between “edible” and having a certification from the FDA claiming “generally regarded as safe”
The better question is: why is kokum butter not GRAS? It’s sold everywhere. Has no one filed with the FDA?
I have never heard of kokum butter before, and certainly never seen it for sale, so ‘sold everywhere’ is a very regional thing. A quick search makes it look like it’s mostly applied topically rather than eaten?
Yeah, the ingredient is called Kokum butter, from the kokum fruit which seems like it has been consumed in various forms, mostly by people in India and south east Asia for a long time. (Including butter from the seeds) I hadn’t heard of it before.
The cheese is Climax Blue. Going to their site I’d honestly never have thought their cheese was good, it’s basically a buzzword dumping ground. Doesn’t sound like they have much product available currently but if it’s really that good hopefully they can scale up quickly
Can this guy make a single statement without using moronic buzzwords? We all know you’re just protecting Florida’s factory farms from competition. You don’t need to bring the Illuminati into this one. And why not let the “free market” sort it out? Cowards.
Can this guy make a single statement without using moronic buzzwords?
It’s all his voters understand.
In this upside down world, the Jews standing together with oppressed people protesting apartheid and genocide are called antisemites by the same people who use every antisemitic trope in the books.
What an idiot. So now I can’t buy impossible burgers?
To my understanding, Impossible burgers are plant based / vegan. They aren’t lab grown meats of indistinguishably beef DNA.
Correct, those burgers are made from soy and potato protein. No meat in any form inside.
Thats good to know. Still, our govenor is an idiot
I ban your life
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.
Florida needs all of the protectionism it can muster - Florida beef is just lousy. It turns out that just because you can raise cattle somewhere spent mean you should.
