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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.

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[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 115 points 6 months ago (21 children)

I can't wait for lab grown meat to become widely available (in my state at least). I think it's really cool. Being able to eat real meat without harming animals sounds so futuristic. It's one piece of future technology that I can actually get behind.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 39 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Agreed. I think the environmental impact is much lower as well, which is basically a win/win if prices can compete with farmed animals.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

It could, if we could stop giving factory farms subsidies and give them to lab-meat-makers instead.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah me too.

Even if you don't care about animals, synthetic will be cheaper, tastier, healthier, and better for the environment.

Honestly the only thing not to like about it is that you don't like the idea.

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[–] MrMeanJavaBean@lemmy.world 82 points 6 months ago

Conservative "Free Market Values" at play

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 76 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Do his supporters really believe hes an “every man” like them, and not literally one of the “global elite”?

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 59 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They like him because he hates the right people.

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[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago

His supporters love hierarchy. All they want is white supremacist hierarchy. If they are in a middle tier and the bottom tiers are suffering that is their ideal society.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 68 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"To fight authoritarianism, the government is going to restrict your dietary choices!"

  • Don Insantis
[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Actual literal double-think

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 54 points 6 months ago (6 children)

If you don't want it, don't buy it, problem solved!

bUt MuH fReEdOmS!?

The only thing that can stop a bad meat maker is a good meat maker?!

[–] monsterlynn@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A good meat maker with a gun!

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[–] crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 months ago

Ya, you know, free-market and all that. Exactly what they have been borking up a tree about for decades now.

/s for those that need it.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

For your convenience:

https://www.goodmeat.co/

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.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/29/after-a-vegan-blue-cheese-won-the-good-food-award-panicked-dairy-cheese-makers-forced-the-foundation-to-disqualify-it.html

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 40 points 6 months ago

"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!

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 39 points 6 months ago

You are part of the elite you stupid stupid fuck

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 36 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I want lab grown steaks so bad. Why are these 'Capitalist' so against the free market?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

They always have been. Capitalism isn't about a free market, it's about keeping the richest most powerful industrialists at the top.

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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

What a cool party of freedom and personal responsibility

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (6 children)

So, if the 'global elite' are not the 1%, and as seen from this whole Gaza thing, they are not 'the jews' (which is what I though Republicans were always coyly referring to when they used that term), who the heck do the Republicans think the 'Global Elite' are?

[–] m13@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Queer students, the vaccinated, and single moms who have to work 3 shitty jobs to pay rent. Those are the true global elite.

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[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who tries to benefit society without concern for profit.

Actually, anyone who tries to do anything without concern for profit.

If you're not familiar with the Farengi from Star Trek, look them up. It matches Republicans pretty well.

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[–] 108@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Florida seems to ban something every week.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Florida seems to ban something every week.

Brought to you by the "party defending your freedom"...

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[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Maybe? I mean the big criticism is that it's just highly processed food at the end of the day and that the process of production is what is the issue. This is of course an argument made by what you may call food purists, who'd rather you spend money on a proper blender than rely on big corporations to form Scop 2.0.

But that's not what Ronnie boy is thinking about. Oh no. He's thinking about "owning the libs", "showing them what for", and what kind of cretinous, disingenuous bastard he can be. He would gladly invest in something like Scop 2.0 if it made a lot of money, AND performatively ban it in his state if it vaguely had an LGBTQ+ tinge to it.

This is a careful reminder that some states banned solar panels out of spite... because people elect absolute troglodytes to represent them, and then have the balls to talk about "free markets".

GTFO here with your fake self. In fact, take the whole republican party with you.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I mean the big criticism is that it's just highly processed food at the end of the day and that the process of production is what is the issue.

Not really? I honestly have not heard anyone argue like this against lab grown meat. The whole point of it is to have more ethical meat that also does not destroy our basis of life through emissions.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

It's not enough to be cast aside for veganism now I can't even have a choice of what to eat? WTF!

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sawed-off, short-sighted fascist strikes again.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Something about "global elite" just sounds antisemitic to me... is this the new new "international Jewry?"

Could be I just have a hair trigger response these days, though

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

It's a dog whistle yes

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Yeah - it’s an Alex Jones thing. “International bankers” or the “global elite” are conniving with George Soros and Bill Gates to make you live in a “fifteen minute city” and eat da bugs.

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[–] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago

For someone's who's a big capitalist, it seems like he's never heard of a free market economy. Just let the market decide which meat is best. Or better yet, let the people!

This is not an endorsement of our late-stage capitalist economy, rather a critic of Ronny's hypocrisy.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“global elite”

That's weird, all my dogs just started barking.

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[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

At this point, this guy is a just a troll. This loser needs to go.

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[–] echodot 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Really tackling the major problems first there. As we all know I've grown meat is everywhere.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Who else than a large corp with sufficient funding can develop and market lab-grown meat anyway? Of course this kind of stuff will come from a large corp at first. Is he willing to launch a state-owned lab to fund it publicly? Yeah, I didn't think so.

It's not like people will jump at the opportunity to buy some backyard-shed-grown meat today, as appetizing that might sound.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

“They’re gonna take your burgers away!” Is the new rallying cry of the weird Right.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

https://www.floridabeef.org/raising-beef/cattle-in-florida

Nearly one-half of all Florida Agricultural land is involved in cattle production.

Someone's probably worried about competition.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

He's a staunch free market Republican. Dude is seriously just throwing out dog whistle BS to conspiracy theorists. What is wrong with eating bugs? Does the little pansy give them icky?

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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I AM THE GLOBAL ELITE.
KNEEL BEFORE MY VEGAN MIGHT!
ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”.

Real "Spiderman pointing at Spiderman" energy here.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They don't like lab grown meat because there isn't enough cruelty built in to the process.

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[–] soba@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

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