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.
Lemmy: Tik Tok should be banned. Your freedom means nothing!
Also lemmy: woah there, what happened to consumer choice in Florida?
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
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.
No it was the lizard people! I have proof! Someone wrote it on the back of their car.
What are you like 60?
Apples and (lab-grown) oranges.
Don’t know where you got that from, a good part of the Lemmists? Lemmings? know the quote by heart:
Every comment on Tik Tok