"Florida is on its way to banning -- and criminalizing -- alternative meat".

"'We're not going to have fake meat. Like that doesn't work,' Gov. Ron DeSantis said."

Eh. Why not?

"Cell-cultivated meat, to be clear, differs from traditional veggie burgers and meat alternatives like Impossible Burgers. As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) defines: Cell-cultivated meat 'is developed in a lab, grown from a sample of animal cells that does not require the slaughter of animals.' In other words, it's actually meat. The development of cell-cultivated meat, the CRS explained, happens in five steps: the biopsy of animal cells, cell banking, cell growth, harvesting, and food processing. It's an industry that has heavy oversight in the US by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)."

Huh, wonder why they would care.

"As of today, the unknowns are so great. There are no long-term studies." Says the House bill sponsor Danny Alvarez, a Republican representative.

Yeah but that hasn't exactly stopped us from putting whacky stuff in our food supply before.

Florida is on its way to banning -- and criminalizing -- alternative meat - Food & Wine

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