Alabama and Florida passed bills banning lab-grown meat. In Alabama, you can face three years in jail and a $500 fine for selling cultivated meat.
on Thursday. When the law goes into effect in October, anyone found guilty of manufacturing, selling, or distributing lab-grown meat could face up to three months in jail and a $500 fine.One of Texas’s Best Distilleries Just Dropped Its First Bottled-in-Bond BourbonThe southern state becomes the second in recent days to prohibit cultivated meat: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a similar bill into law in the Sunshine State earlier this month,noted.
Proponents of lab-grown meat are understandably upset about the new rules. “Legislation that bans cultivated meat is a reckless move that ignores food safety experts and. “It makes politicians the food police, and it ignores the food safety experts at USDA and FDA who have deemed it safe.” Lab-grown meat—in which real animal cells are used to grow protein—has emerged as an alternative to the traditional, climate-intensive meat industry.
“With these shortsighted laws, Alabama and Florida politicians are trampling on consumer choice and criminalizing agricultural innovation,” Pepin Andrew Tuma, the legislative director of the Good Food Institute, told. “At a time when American farmers and manufacturers face stiff competition around the world, states can either support new initiatives that create thousands of good-paying jobs, or they can play politics and police the foods people eat.
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