Lab-grown meat banned under new Florida law signed by Gov. DeSantis

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning the distribution and sale of cultivated meat statewide.
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[@redhytech]

How about banning all the additives they put in food, such as insects and sawdust.

[@elinope4745]

Insects and sawdust are a lot healthier than GMO soy that has sucked up a lot of insecticide or herbicides. And because of that it is also safer than just about any processed food that contains soy bean oil. Before I banned sawdust, I would ban insecticides, herbicides and their decay chemicals.

[@alphonse360]

​@@elinope4745 bs what if they also carriers of parasites?

[@corpingtons]

Seriously

[@redhytech]

@elinope4745 you go right ahead and eat your bugs,, little buddy. Ain't No one stopping you. I'll pass.

[@trvr_inds]

Human dna in food these days

[@faithlesspancake4800]

Do Americans still think they’re „free“? Ridiculous

[@scottgust9709]

free to eat soilent green

[@ElleGen]

Free to force other people to be like them.

[@sadboi8458]

Yeah we're free to eat real meat so imma go to my grill and enjoy a nice REAL steak

[@madmarvdesigns]

​@sadboi8458 ok free means choice not forced the scientific evidence shows live stock meat as more dangerous with antibiotics, mercury, prone to diseases like E. Coli and mad cow...DeSantis' ban on lab grown meat makes no sense since he is a Republican and supposed to support the free market...farmers that are unnecessary should go out of business more land for other purposes

[@bubblelady8528]

only the crazy ones, like the one above me

[@JadieJamz]

Dude stood there with a straight face, and said "we make our chickens" 😂

[@user-qi3qx1gx9i]

Don't you see his face is made with the chickens 🐔

[@chriskijek4649]

SO true I think I will trust Gods Chicken before I eat any Chicken MAN has made. VEGANS probably love the stuff since its not chicken chicken LOL

[@frankmacleod2565]

​@@chriskijek4649God did not make the chicken you eat. The chickens we eat are wholly a product of human intervention. Generations of breeding and genetic manipulation. Go out in nature and find me a 8 pound roaster. You won't find any

[@frankmacleod2565]

No, he said we make our chicken. Singular. You folks don't listen very closely

[@hart316]

“And undermines economic growth”… yet conversely promotes the healthcare industry

[@user-yf5qs5vc4k]

Got to be so careful at what you buy at the grocery store it's just sickening

[@jennSalvate]

That and in restaurants. Who knows what they're feediing us. Zaxby's chicken already seems as if something is up with it. Rubbery etc

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

@@jennSalvateI seen a documentary on it, it stated restaurants and grocery stores are already selling it and you wouldn’t even know the difference that’s the scary part.. lab grown food is NOT safe and it needs to be banned

[@LosDoyerss]

We need more farmers and less government.

[@AceofSpades511]

Less government means banning things from a free market? Explain.

[@madmarvdesigns]

DeSantis is a socialist he should let the free market if you don't like it don't buy it...there's more scientific evidence showing livestock meat as more dangerous than lab grown meat...mad cow disease won't exist in lab grown beef, physically identical to beef except generated without killing cows, uses 90% less land, 92% lower emissions, 66% less water...in no time lab grown meat should take over in a free market free society

[@snacky-cp8hm]

less gov means farmers using unsafe farming methods to cut costs do you want to die?

[@arizonaskies]

Absolutely!!!

[@90ejb]

​​@@AceofSpades511It means to stop allowing the FDA and USDA to accept bribery from all of these corporations cutting corners. Also put regulations of the pharmaceutical companies. Toxic food and expensive healthcare is making the government a lot of money

[@BigCarmine]

If the USDA says it's safe, then you KNOW it's got to be bad for you.

[@rebeccaspratling2865]

Great point! 😂

[@snacky-cp8hm]

usa has the 3rd highest quality food. You're just brainwashed

[@vikinglife6316]

Safe is one thing. Beneficial is entirely different. Consuming a small amount of diluted bleach is technically safe but clearly is anything but beneficial.

[@pattiannepascual]

like when they started injecting cows with bgh so they produce more milk. But the side effect was mastitis, causing cow udders to deposit more pus in milk than there already is.. Instead of banning the drug, they highered the legal amount of pus allowed in the milk supply. Glad I don't use dairy But this is how our govt operates.🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@griselleserrano26]

FDA is soooo corrupted!! It's disgusting😤

[@williamguru]

I guess the lab grown meat industry isn't large enough to funnel large amounts of money into political campaigns.

[@notthatronjohnson1187]

Spot on.

[@gasmith7486]

Lab grown ANYTHING is not healthy.

[@rostakoid]

Bingo

[@joserauloromi3538]

Exactly! I find more gross and inhumane the way that we treat animals for “human consumption”compared to lab grown meat.

[@Denvermorgan2000]

He refused to make a contribution to the Republicans.....

[@peace-a]

Thank you, Governor!

[@mydogsbutler]

So you hate freedom.

[@darlamccoy810]

Idk if it's safe!? BUT THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO CHANGE. NOBODY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL FOOD. TRUTH😊

[@fromthegroundup841]

vat cancer is not food.

[@OceanLife772]

You think These rich folks like Bill Gates is going to eat This Crap?!

[@nobody-fs8jj]

Nah but he's got stock in it

[@josephfoto6229]

He’s is smart enough to avoid stepping in crap; I give him that !

[@EyeXombie]

You should see where the meat you eat comes from and I would ask the same question to you.

[@Juggernaut-fg2up]

​@@EyeXombieI see where the meat I eat comes from what does that have to do with anything

[@jakeh6980]

EyeXombie hey, live off of bugs and insects. I sincerely hope you don’t eat actual meat or any actual food. Please eat artificial laboratory chemical made food and insects. It’s more actual food for us common sense people

[@blackwingsandblindangels2162]

FDA approval my ass. In one to two years you'll see these: "Were you or your unborn baby harmed due to lab grown meat? Well, you may be eligible for a class action lawsuit". Not even worth the risk to an unborn baby, adolescents or adults. Period.

[@bfestudios6677]

Facts !! They always air these lame infomercials late at night or early AM. I don't trust anything the so called FDA or government promotes as safe. There's always a catch and they know that they are causing people sickness. It's all apart of their depopulation scheme anyways. Poison the population and claim ignorance. This isn't an accident. I'm happy more of us are now aware of this problem.

[@deananderson7714]

It’s literally the exact same thing as cow meat. If you’re scared of eating lab grown meat you better become a vegetarian

[@frankleyJ]

You have literally 0 clue. You know nothing about it other than your favorite team tells you to whine about it

[@esheep8697]

​@@deananderson7714or just not eat the lab grown meat. He doesn't have to become a vegetarian just let the lab grown meat be sold and differentiated between farm raised meat then let him never buy it

[@deananderson7714]

@@esheep8697 refusing to eat lab grown meat but eating normal meat is like refusing to eat meat from people called Steve

[@jeffmoodie6144]

Safe safe safe… where have we heard that recently.

[@frankmacleod2565]

They said vegetables are safe to eat. You're welcome to disagree

[@edwindelgado8775]

Funny when he said FDA people will be supervising the process 🙆

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@edwindelgado8775 you should see what things are like in a country that doesn't have an FDA. Fake meat in China. In the Philippines they take leftovers from restaurant dumpsters, wash it, deep fry it and serve it up to the public, yum yum

[@Onedimensional4141]

Merchants of Doubt?

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@Onedimensional4141 I'm curious what everyone is scared of, regarding the lab grown meat. Do you honestly think eating some of that stuff will kill you? Meanwhile you smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, which is a solvent..... Alcohol will melt the paint off your car, yet we all drink it

[@kaioser]

Make it illegal to even call it “meat”

[@alexanderfreeman3406]

Why? It’s literally meat. It is exactly the same tissue as what’s on a cow.

[@mg-by7uu]

Should move to China if you love communists controlling every aspect of your life

[@Numba1hunna83]

​@alexanderfreeman3406 No, it is not. Meat comes from a living animal. There is absolutely no way this is good.

[@frey8725]

@@Numba1hunna83 Ignorant comment. It's literally the same thing. If you bothered to learn anything, you'd know it's cells taken from an animal, given all the proteins it needs to grow and then grows into real meat. It's literally meat. Actually more pure than most meat that's sold in stores.

[@frey8725]

@@Numba1hunna83 Wow. Another comment deleted. What about it is not meat. Try learning about and then give a more accurate explanation.

[@elliegoulding744]

These people are getting more and more insane. This is disgusting.

[@chalexen2862]

But the idea of lab grown meat is so that not only that it’s a clean meat to eat, in contrast for example a live stock chicken that was modified to grow more meat in their body unnaturally and were injected with antibiotics etc, but also it reduces carbon emissions because it’s not alive. Same goes with lab grown fish meat. You don’t even have to worry about consuming traces of mercury or pollution, in contrast to Canada’s salmon farms were putting them closely together causes them to receive viruses which farmers has to resort to putting antibiotics etc. inside them.

[@sukaynaalyraza3973]

Very Disgusting!

[@Dizpoza]

@@chalexen2862 You are insane!!!

[@ciuzdamm]

​@chalexen2862 " it reduces carbon emissions because it is not alive" ... you don't make any sense here! Fact, fyi: You exhale 100 times more CO2 than you inhale. And stop spreading misinformation: IT is not meat!!!

[@ct000374910]

​@@chalexen2862 Science labs use more energy per square foot than pretty much any other building type. I seriously doubt that we're saving much, if anything, in the way of carbon emissions by growing meat in a lab. As for the supposed health benefits, I'll wait for them to gather more data before I believe it out of hand. I doubt that meat grown in a lab doesn't have drawbacks somewhere compared to regular meat. The human body has adapted to proteins from animals; who can say for certain that protein from a petri dish won't cause problems?

[@neverendingproductions7171]

This is idiotic. How about banning some harmful preservimg chemicals on food first.

[@user-vk5ic5hb4s]

Run if the fda approved it

[@newjerseylion4804]

It's not fda approved

[@Steve-yo4ld]

​@@newjerseylion4804 Listen to the video again! It was approved last year by the FDA!

[@kenyettebellamy2260]

Why do people say that

[@Furryfeather]

Or make your own decision and not allow another reoublican to make it for you

[@Steve-yo4ld]

@@Furryfeather Do you mean like the democrats!?👌

[@linjp2773]

It's about $$$, control, and power by the enemies of We the people.

[@francesmaurer185]

Yep...just like Big Pharmacy Companies .....

[@babybaby9785]

Yes, jew- yahoos are everyone's enermy!!.

[@compassioncampaigner728]

Yes Yes Yes Yes Keep that funder money coming!

[@frankmacleod2565]

Exactly. When the government is telling the citizens what we are and are not allowed to eat, something is terribly wrong

[@jackmurphy687]

@@frankmacleod2565 exactly! ie ron desantis is an anti-free market fool in this case

[@mtn231]

1:23 we make our chicken? Bro you didn’t make chicken 😂

[@dianecernak7130]

Only the fake ones.....

[@frankmacleod2565]

Go find me a 8 pound roaster in nature. They don't exist

[@jross8040]

Soylent Green is people 😂

[@karenray7925]

YES SAW THE MOVIE LONG AGO , IS THAT TRYED ON US NEXT??

[@CHRISMESCALERO]

😂correct 😊😂 😅

[@derekchubeck4428]

I keep hearing my dad say that line when we here about the fake meat

[@engineeringandtruth5162]

COVID vaccines were “safe”, BPA levels are “safe”, “safe” amounts of sugar intake cause obesity, “safe” amount of plastic in our food. Safe is a term of “we dont know of the long term, but its safe in the short term”.

[@snacky-cp8hm]

Your brainwashed

[@KremitDeFrog]

kinda reminds me how vaping is "safer" than smoking.. there's 100+ years of scientific data behind the affects and causes of smoking tobacco cigarettes.. there's 20 years of data for vapes.. still waiting for someone to tell me how they're so confident the limited 20 years of data can be more reliable and trust worthy than 100+ years of collected data..

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

@@snacky-cp8hmI don’t think your reading comprehension is there lol… how if this person brainwashed when their pointing out something critical?

[@snacky-cp8hm]

@@nashambenyisrael7689 Cause anti vaxxers are all brainwashed to push them towards buying alternative medicine that doesn't work. Something similar happens with food only one group says gmo food is bad and no other group is willing to back their claims. Mean while usa is 3rd in world food quality.

[@nobody-xh6ii]

​@@KremitDeFrog difference with cigs and vape is how you inhale it. With cigarettes it goes into your lungs and has a ton of nicotine. With vaping you can get it in just the mouth and 0% nicotine at that. Making vaping non addictive.

[@douglasbullet6456]

Well done Florida men and women

[@findingkelly]

Right? Love DeSantis. I chuckled when I read this.

[@kevinklein9565]

Wow, wait until you hear about the toxic sht they’re pumping into these animals!

[@user-jy2vd2em6v]

What I don’t understand is why are some people actually pissed off cause he did this? There needs to be more done but this is definitely a huge step in the right direction

[@simonvargas8392]

How is taking people freedom of choice a step towards the right direction? Should he ban cigarettes and alcohol and anything that may harm individuals?

[@compassioncampaigner728]

​@@user-jy2vd2em6v Now There is a dim comment

[@krissaberhagen]

it undermines their pockets of cash

[@davidthedeaf]

You translated lobbyist-speak to American English perfectly. Thank you

[@papabradsog4727]

Do NOT let them lie to you. Bugs

[@eliasa.740]

Didn't the FDA tell us that the Covid poke was SAFE??!! Just asking.

[@derekchubeck4428]

Right

[@frankmacleod2565]

Yes, and it is. Here we are years later and nobody's legs fell off, and we're still here. Go figure, you all were wrong

[@Motswako]

FDA is overrated

[@popweaselcrunch]

Still haven't met a single person that had adverse effects. What were some of the other laughable conspiracies you folks had? Wasn't a 1 year life expectancy then stretched to 3 then 5?

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@popweaselcrunch remember when they were telling us that getting the jab would cause our legs to fall off? One of many conspiracies that failed to materialize

[@Shane-bx8ws]

Lab grown meat... sounds like something out of Resident Evil.

[@penelopepigeon3510]

Sounds more like Star Trek to me. WWJD What Would Jean-Luc Do? Probably order a cup of Earl Grey hot to go with this. ☕ 🍗

[@powerplayer75]

Does anything you dont understand scare you? Are you a toddler?

[@sayitaintso7544]

Nope dont want it. They can take their Franken-meat elsewhere.

[@ct000374910]

More like "Dead Rising". Remember how the outbreak started in the first place?

[@ct000374910]

​@@powerplayer75 Not everything that comes out of a lab is safe for people, regardless of what anyone might tell you. Just ask the folks who took the astrazeneca vaccine. Or the folks who created the covid 19 virus. I for one will hold off on eating anything grown in a lab, at least until there's more information about the long-term effects of doing so.

[@sudilos1172]

Woooo! Go Florida! Or maybe, I’ll go to Florida!

[@jenn_gulf_coast4644]

You’re welcome here as long as you don’t vote for liberal BS.

[@DM5550Z]

@@jenn_gulf_coast4644Lab grown meat is great also doesnt produce multi resistance bacteria. Would you rather have clean, suffering free meat molecularly the same or disease ridden animals

[@scalper6195]

dont move to swfl were full , thanks you

[@WLOfails]

Florida is full of unwanted snowbirds. Stay out

[@CHRISMESCALERO]

@DarthMarr2009 , since the 1990s It's been the same stuff Taco Bell did use or STILL DOES *** [ they called it lizard meat] *** Only relabled it as MRE for Troops ( I call them Mr. E's ) only it has 10yr shelf life. JUST ADD Water 💧

[@timmyhexham9603]

DeSantis… the KING of common sense! Florida is a lucky place! From Australia 🇦🇺

[@jenn_gulf_coast4644]

We LOVE our Governor ❤

[@gen.arnavpoe4633]

Protecting his donors...yall are stupid af thinking he's making desicions for Florida people

[@Southerncharm1409]

We have THE BEST state Governor in the entire US 🇺🇸

[@DM5550Z]

@@Southerncharm1409This is a dumb ban, its a threat to the free market and harms animals. Its molecularly the same as regular chicken

[@WskyGrl73]

​@@DM5550Zand if you believe that, i have some ocean front property in Arizona I'll sell you. 😮🙄

[@freedomofchoice1911]

Gates is the one with the idea and been working on it for years IT IS NOT MEAT .

[@Daniel-of6rw]

I also find it ironic your username is freedom of choice. Should we not have the choice to eat "real" meat or lab-grown meat?

[@timeisunending]

​@@Daniel-of6rw It is meat, sure. Cultivated Mammal cells or whatever type of meat they grow. But it's a threat to not only the cattle industry, but public health as well. Cultivated meat is an extremely new industry, and who's to say that we have all the experience, checks in place, and regulations as we do with the cattle and fishing industries. Do you have proof it's chemically the same? Is the nutritional value the exact same, and in every way? What's your source?

[@chrisso871]

@Daniel-of6rw I’m no vegan, but surely you’re informed enough to know that red meat, especially from cattle, is not particularly good either for health or the environment

[@Daniel-of6rw]

@@timeisunending interesting take. Personally I think a lab would be much cleaner and safer. Meat from the animal industry regularly has all sorts of disease in it. E coli, etc. They have recalls nearly daily. Regarding your other question, I suggest you read yourself about the composition. There is too much too explain here. But yes, if you grow cells from a cell taken from an animal, it will be the same type of cells.

[@themartdog]

It literally is exactly the same. God people are ... i'll let you fill in the blank

[@jamesrominger3850]

Thank you! This man actually cares about his people down here.

[@robertstevensonjr]

I didn't know lab grown meat was out here like that.

[@bbrcummins1984]

Safe and effective, sounds familiar 😊

[@thomasw7952]

I've noticed quite a bit of products at Save A Lot have "Contains a bioengineered food ingredient" (or some variation) on the back labels. Check the labels.

[@Robin-my4em]

Same in every store. They try and sneak things by the consumer. Typical demoncrap behavior.

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

It’s in everything just about… if you don’t make it at home it bioengineered and you don’t know what you’re consuming. I don’t even buy snacks anymore because they all say bioengineered. I make everything from scratch now… it saves a buck and you know what you’re eating… it takes longer but imo I rather do my body justice then being mad it took 3 hours to make bread lol

[@maryannbravo5650]

I did: what does that mean? It’s Evan on Hellman’s mao

[@joycesteinkeyser1959]

Thank you ❤

[@cyndiduncan7795]

I noticed Old El Paso taco ahells the other day said they contained bio engineered foods. Enough already!

[@ct000374910]

I'm dubious about the supposed "benefits" of lab-grown meat. That said, I'm against this type of heavy-handed behavior from the government on general principles.

[@wert556]

YESSSSS I MUST GO LIVE IN FLORIDA!!!!!!

[@purplesprigs]

Why do the crazies who scream about freedom and choice pass laws banning your right to make your own decisions? "Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves" - Neil Peart.

[@troyheffernan1261]

I support this ban. There's so much out there that's harmful to humans that's man made to eat. The last thing we need is some nut job creating something that will change your DNA later down the road.

[@Furryfeather]

The new republican party & this guy is a trained attorney who can make every freedom taken sound like the most red white & blue celebration

[@troyheffernan1261]

@Ron-sr6iz coming from liberals who go after freedom's and rights that rich. Maybe you should police your own back yard for lawyer dung before you hang out with the ACLU.

[@carolinechristensen3459]

If you don't like our laws, leave or don't move here.

[@oldworldorder9424]

It is a farming scam.

[@crappo8459]

I’m moving to Florida God bless DeSantis the Farmers and the Police 👍👍👍

[@user-wp9mz]

I don't think you'll have to worry about lab grown meat because people can't even afford to buy food right now but you all keep playing your political games carry on

[@theshadowman8801]

Like when are they going to grow up?

[@RealMTBAddict]

Really? The grocery store is packed everyday. They have plenty of money.

[@wisdomlounge4452]

It's not political games when the "other side" tries to add some BS "climate change tax" on natural meat products in order to twist your arm into buying that lab grown garbage. I can easily see that happening in states like California, New York and Hawaii. In light of that very real possibility, it's great seeing the state of Florida with a governor like DeSantis stepping up to do the right thing by banning this lab meat garbage that shouldn't qualify as meat or food fit for human consumption. Most people don't know how they're making this lab grown meat. It's gross! In order to coax the meat cells to multiply rapidly to form sheets they induce them to go into a cancerous state. How else are they going to get them to grow fast enough to become a commercially viable product. Think about it! Would you like having some lab produced beef cancer tumor "meat" on your dinner plate? I don't know about you guys, but I'll pass on that!

[@constitutionloversue]

Cereal

[@constitutionloversue]

AOC Farting cows comment

[@diverdeep6348]

Who pays the FDA?

[@horseygurl143]

Probably not a penny-pinching conservative.

[@gbottle0521]

you pay them 🤣😂🤣😂

[@koshnaranek2317]

The people making the fake meat. That would be the FDA "inspectors" during every step of the process.😒

[@boslyporshy6553]

​@@koshnaranek2317 They aren't off the ground yet. Where are they getting the money?

[@losspol_3466]

you

[@eltoncraig912]

FDA 😂🤣 Thanks Ron Every state should Follow. Sicking.

[@travisquinney1739]

Yea we should trust the FDA😂😂😂😂😂

[@Catspurrlounge]

Yea, really. They aproved the covid vacs also. I trust nothing from the Federal Gov

[@jaynemo674]

You should give people a choice. Ron here is taking away your freedom to make a choice and is acting like a communist denying free market.

[@Butterfly04able]

Said no one!

[@DM5550Z]

If you had cancer, would you not get chemotherapy because its FDA approved? This is ridiculous since lab grown meat is down to the molecule the same as chicken and doesnt require cruel factory farming and you can get any type of meat cheaper.

[@kathleenbueter1272]

Yeah, the FDA also said that NutraSweet is OK but look what it does to your brain and Health and yet it’s still For sale

[@abrahamthomas904]

If the FDA or Desantis really cared about consumer safety, they would have banned countless food items sold in this country that are proven to have harmful effects. Banning this cultured meat is just a political stunt or he’s just protecting the meat industry who has donated millions to his previous campaign. This country is becoming a sham. Everyone is a sell out. a

[@Just_Johnnie]

FDA is a sales tool big businesses.

[@wbwam7710]

I mean, Aspartame isn't known to cause brain damage and it's approved by most nations, but go off, I guess

[@willoweable]

What's wrong with NutraSweet?

[@dallaskegley7900]

Technically nothing is safe overtime

[@AlldatJazz-rw9wy]

If it doesn't come with a bone, leave it alone.

[@TerriblePerfection]

I'm stealing that. 🎯

[@ReefOU812]

Now ban that "Appeal" crap now too please

[@mystieveil9508]

YES

[@cwebr789]

Yes! The evil gates is even poisoning our produce.

[@dianatrans1804]

YES PLEASE!!!

[@sacredstarclairvoyantkat]

Yes ban Apeel from being put on fruits and vegetables including organic.

[@Taxskipper]

That and insect meat

[@therealmvp232]

Who the hell wants to eat lab food.

[@_Mach3]

You already eat lab food lol them chickens ain’t nowhere near natural. 😂

[@cosmicavatar773]

@@_Mach3 Good thing im vegetarian

[@kemetm3]

Fake people.

[@germanshepherd6638]

Monsanto?

[@CaseOhfoodeater]

​@_Mach3 that's why I have always raised my own chicken 🐔

[@jstrong2244]

That's disgusting. Gross. These people have lost there minds.

[@frankmacleod2565]

Exactly. Imagine a state where the government has control of what you're allowed to eat

[@nicklasmillner101]

​@@frankmacleod2565He's such a bozo the Clown 🤡. He will be a lobbyist in ,DC after his term is up .

[@popweaselcrunch]

Wait until you see how mass produced meats are acquired.

[@jacobsukovaty520]

​@@popweaselcrunch No worse then this

[@TreDogOfficial]

The thing about freedom is, it requires you tolerate others who aren't hurting anyone else.

[@thetexanbuzzsaw3145]

It's not got anything to do with freedom, it's about making sure millions of Americans don't lose their jobs.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

@@thetexanbuzzsaw3145you better believe in a free market or socialism collective. This is socialism through a back door.

[@mr.hamhammer2636]

A cultivated meat industry has the theoretical capability to outstrip traditional means of meat production. You might say it’ll cost millions of jobs but at the end of the day we’re talking about about a cheap and reliable source of food. New advancements cost jobs, but they create new ones and to be honest With you, this is one tool that could be very easily used to combat world hunger. But now it’s just about jobs to you, isn’t it?

[@HearMeOut-bi6ui]

Im not american. But i am confident that promoting lab grown meat isn't right. 1. It will obviously put farmers in a disadvantage. 2. You have no idea what they could be putting in that meat.

[@harmonybutnomoney]

​@@thetexanbuzzsaw3145That's just life. They would simply have to adapt, get some education and then grow their meat in their own lab. Banning lab grown meat just because it's better than normal meat is dumb.

[@jayhenderlight6415]

Who still believes the FDA?!?😆🤣🤦🤢🤣😂

[@joycesteinkeyser1959]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Gamerbern]

Fearmongering at its finest

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

Where's the beef?

[@shannonbrophy3687]

Wendy's! ❤

[@MichaelBradley1967]

@@shannonbrophy3687 In the form of a triple Baconator 🤤

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

@@shannonbrophy3687 Arby's got the meats.

[@jongonegone1262]

DAVE would be MAD.

[@mr.pizzamarlon]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DakotaFord592]

The cattle industry... 😂😂😂😂

[@IamPreacherMan]

Haha. Exactly. Beef so pumped full of antibiotics, vaccines and hormones. 😂😂😂😂 and the anti-vaxxer crowd cheers like cheap sheep.

[@shubhrajit2117]

It's like the way the church banned heliocentrism in 1600s

[@jaydragon962]

This is absolutely disgusting, not no, but hell no!

[@RyanMartinez-gy7bx]

Yet you eat food covered in chemicals that are illegal In other countries

[@tamaragibson8593]

Please, they always say it’s “safe” 80 years later a 1-800 class action rolls across the screen. I hope other states ban it too. I don’t believe for one minute it’s safe when a dollar will make them say whatever they think will get sales and approval.

[@summerant38]

How does anyone, other than scientists, know if it’s actually safe or not? We can only judge it with our biased beliefs. You say those companies will say whatever to sell their product, wouldn’t that be just like how farmers will always be against them to eliminate competition?

[@atorsionx9406]

@@summerant38 Farmers sure stir the pot plenty. A while back a bunch of them dairy farmers were trying to ban the term "nut milk" from being used. They claimed that it was tricking people into thinking them as actual milk. Which is a load of horse shyte. Don't think it passed, though.

[@jameshill8493]

What makes you say it isn’t safe. What are you comparing this to. Is there proof it isn’t safe to the point it should be banned?

[@UberGastronomer]

@@jameshill8493That’s the thing. There is no evidence that it IS safe. Where are the long term studies showing it is safe? Where are the people who have eaten this daily for 20+ years to show that this is safe? We have people eating beef, chicken, fish, pork, etc living full, normal healthy lives since the Paleolithic, so it’s safe to say humans can eat normal meat. But lab grown meat hasn’t even been out for one year. Furthermore it is made out of immortal cell lines, just like cancer cells, which divide indefinitely and do not undergo apoptosis like normal cells. If you put those cells in an animal, we would call that a tumor.

[@summerant38]

@user-iy1vo2jf2q yes please say more. I don’t know how they’re made, do you? If you do know how they’re made and tell me it’s dangerous, then I am on your side and so should everyone. If you don’t know how it’s made, then why should anyone believe it when you say it’s dangerous? Medicines are made in labs with chemicals, corporations provide necessities for your daily life. Simply throwing these words out and villainizing isn’t an argument or proof of anything. It’s just biases. Labs and chemicals can be dangerous, but guess what? Farmers can be too. Just go look up how Chinese farmers are doing to their cows and how dangerous their dairy products are. Corporations can be greedy, and farmers can be too. Why would they want an additional competitor out there when they already compete with themselves? They’re all the same in the end.

[@alisagumm8547]

If someone wanted to eat it, freedom of choice, right?! 😊 Besides, it seems like the meat industry was scared of competition.

[@UberGastronomer]

So you support repealing the national ban on horse meat? Since you’re in favor of personal choice?

[@Just_Johnnie]

Lab grown meat? What is the long term effect on human body? How can they say the lab grown meat is safe without extensive long term testing? Or are we their lab rats?

[@candylicious3024]

Exactly, The Cancer rate is going to Sky Rocket and many more sicknesses might form in people because of that Fake Meat!!!

[@illpunchyouintheface9094]

Well long term effects will depend on what the meat is made of. If lab meat is identical in every way to normal meat, then what ever heath issues normal meat brings the lab meat will also bring.

[@kassiwarcraft7633]

🐀

[@faithlesspancake4800]

Have you ANY idea how many American foods are banned in Europe? Ever ask yourself why? Because we wouldn’t touch the chemical waste you call food with a 2m long stick. But I don’t see you complaining about that.

[@penelopepigeon3510]

​@@faithlesspancake4800😂 Touché!

[@horlzonline1131]

Meanwhile everyone is ignoring that lab grown meat means we could live in a world where a) so much valuable land isn't taken up by livestock, and b) the amount of methane let out into the atmosphere greatly decreases, much to the benefit of literally everyone... Yes, I know it would affect the meat industry, farmers, etc. No, I do not care. Industries sometimes have to make large shifts in order for progress to be made, and this shift in the industry is something they should be able to see coming a mile away. They can adapt to the evolving market if they want to stay afloat. That's what everyone else has to do! Additionally, there's likely no strange "chemicals" in this meat, or anything fundamentally wrong with it. The IDEA of eating lab-grown things just triggers disgust because we know where it comes from and have ingrained biases about what is actually in laboratories, most of it being untrue. You don't wanna know where a lot of your food comes from right now! Food companies do things you have no idea about, and modern meat farmers DO pump those animals full of drugs and hormones. I bet the majority of people don't even understand what all of the ingredients actually are in a lot of their food. It's early in the process, but if eventually we can have meat that looks, smells, tastes, and feels like meat, being the EXACT SAME on a molecular level as a real cut of meat, I don't care if its from an animal or not.

[@penelopepigeon3510]

Well said 👏

[@veronicab4160]

There’s no long term studies investigating the effects of lab grown meat. Lab grown meat uses cell lines the proliferate quickly. You know what else uses cell lines that proliferate quickly? Cancer.

[@undergrace1808]

I do care if it’s from an animal, and all the so called “animals lovers”should too, if they are really animal lovers. Frankly, I would not recommend eating animals or this meat. It’s all unnatural for us to eat.

[@compassioncampaigner728]

​@@undergrace1808 As a 28 yr vegetarian, I agree - both are bad, but factory farming is despicable. Hoo boy. Redneck mentality? Here it is! Goober eagerness to eat wildly carcinogenic growth hormones and also eat comingled flesh-meat ( different cows make up one hamburger). Sucking the nipple of a political funder and then gleefully telling you that funder money created this legislation? They are doing it right in your face! Hoo boy, the red neck, unevolved Florida reputation is validated once again.

[@chrishemry7]

The only logical reason I can see for this, rather than politicians selling out to the beef industry, is that maybe the lab grown meat has to identify itself in the fine print, and a lot of the older residents in Florida have trouble reading the fine print.

[@R.A.111]

Great now lets get rid of Chem Trails!

[@erictaylor3897]

What are chem trails and what's in them?

[@dopeydonaldtrump3744]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣....nearlly spat out my cornflakes

[@rexweller3759]

​@@erictaylor3897Aluminum, barium, and plastic.

[@glory3670]

I'd heard that Tennessee had a bill on the table trying to do just that.

[@frey8725]

Those are made by the aliens that are terraforming our planet.

[@user-hl1zo6co1o]

I don’t desire to harm anyone’s business. On the other hand, what make these ranchers feel so entitled that they think we need to protect their business’s? I was in construction during the 08 crash when the banks and auto industry got bailed out. Construction stopped hard and we were left to figure out how to survive. My great grandfather owned a buggy manufacturing company and the auto industry killed it, yet here we are 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@punchcat0736]

You mean by allowing untested fake meat?

[@Distress.]

@@punchcat0736 It's not untested and it's clearly labeled, the only way it would hurt cattle industry is if people actually liked it.

[@illpunchyouintheface9094]

@@punchcat0736you act like lab meat is something that can be made in a day and not take decades to make

[@la4828]

@@Distress.how sure are you they really put everything “on the label”? And how sure are you that fda were never bribed to just “approve it as safe”? Was never made by God, was never tested to be grown safe by nature, aren’t medicines made in lab too but look at how sicker people get.

[@spectrepar2458]

​@@punchcat0736what are your grounds to ban it?

[@jeffreyhepner2467]

I "" DO NOT TRUST FDA"" NATURAL IS ALWAYS BEST!!!!

[@hcn6708]

The FDA says factory farmed and grassfed meat is safe while processed food is unhealthy, are you gonna follow the opposite logic?

[@robertmoran3589]

Shouldn’t we be more concerned with homeowners insurance and auto insurance? How about doing something about this problem instead of lab created meat 🥩.

[@juliaweber212]

I agree to me there a more pressing issues in Florida and the governor is not addressing those issues alot of the people in Florida are struggling to live and are barely hanging on and passing bills for what control I just don't see how to helps people in Florida

[@kd6281]

1000X THIS !!!!!!!!!!

[@penelopepigeon3510]

Florida has 3 million acres of cattle pasture and over 15k homeless people. So, eat more traditional meat alternatives, reduce the number of cattle, and build housing on that empty land.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

People should have a choice.

[@penelopepigeon3510]

Exactly.

[@Goldstar2110]

Not in Florida 😊

[@NostalgiaHDOS]

You do have the choice. Go to another state

[@thefunnymofo7857]

Is Florida the only state in the Union?

[@Babybeamergirl]

Get deznuts😂

[@brianrose5985]

Set the standard. No fake meat crap.

[@popweaselcrunch]

Just don't buy it. Aren't republicans against Big Government interference?

[@jackmurphy687]

it's real meat sir

[@carolfischer5264]

Ya…total trust with the USDA 😆👎🏻

[@HumanBeanbag]

More government bureaucracy, thanks.

[@janetcriner902]

RIGHT ON👍🤗 OK, Nevada let's follow Florida!!!

[@frankmacleod2565]

You want the government restricting your diet? Interesting

[@iadoreadonai]

❤Love it Governor DeSantis!Thank you…..next issue to ban hopefully Cricket Protein.

[@jacquelinegros403]

TAHNK YOU GOVERNOR DESANTIS!

[@hensleytomzx10r]

Florida is looking better and better everyday.

[@powerofme7144]

Except the dropping real estate values, increased insurance and HOA fees. People are trying to leave there because of it but are trapped, from a financial perspective.

[@sclarin2]

@@powerofme7144 I live in FL and I don't know a single person who is leaving the state because of those issues. The media vastly overstates this line bc they hate that FL is a red state

[@powerofme7144]

@@sclarin2 I only like Ron when he’s running FL haha. But so many real estate channels covering the bad RE market in FL.

[@lunarastra3103]

Thank you Gov. DeSantis...NOW...NO GEOENGINEERING IN OUR " SUNNY" ( YEAH, RIGHT, ) SKIES!!!

[@abrahamthomas904]

Everything else on the store shelves here contains genetically modified ingredients if that’s what you’re referring to. Desantis doesn’t give a flying f about consumer safety

[@middleschoolgravy]

Talk about “virtue signaling”. Not to mention this is anti-business and anti-capitalist.

[@carolinechristensen3459]

No it isn't! We in Florida don't want chemical crap disguised as food. Stay in your own state, this has nothing to do with you.

[@middleschoolgravy]

@@carolinechristensen3459 I live here. I was born here. There’s probably people around you who also have different opinions. Don’t you believe in the free market? Don’t you believe in freedom of choice? The existence of lab grown meat doesn’t mean you or I have to consume it, but it does mean economic growth.

[@carolinechristensen3459]

@@middleschoolgravy The people I know here wouldn't feed that chemical crap to their pets, let alone their family. I do agree people have a choice. If you don't like it here, move to a state in which you can live.

[@middleschoolgravy]

@@carolinechristensen3459 nobody is saying they would have to. You aren’t in favor of choice if your solution is “if you don’t like it leave”. You’re either being purposefully obtuse or lack all self awareness.

[@BionicPig95]

@@carolinechristensen3459 tell me what you think a “chemical” is

[@UpstateVarmageddon]

At this point FDA approval = the highest bidder basically

[@Distress.]

This is stupid. Just label it let us choose to buy what we want.

[@UberGastronomer]

Just move out of Florida if you want to eat fake meat.

[@joshmnky]

If you don't want it, you don't have to eat it. Apparently the majority don't want it, so what's the fear here? This comment section is full of people who are happy to limit freedom with frivolous legal bloat. This is big government. Micromanaging things that don't matter so you don't notice the things that do.

[@penelopepigeon3510]

These are the same people who can't understand if you don't want an abortion, don't have one. They don't stop at making a choice for themselves. They then proceed to make that choice for everyone around them effectively removing the concept of choice altogether.

[@spectrepar2458]

Yes i dont see the justification fir threatening people with violence if they want to buy or sell lab grown. DeSantis can pretend to be a capitalist all he wants but the truth is revealed in situations like this.

[@tameishalcampbell]

It’s not labeled so the consumer cannot decide whether they are buying it or not… that’s the problem

[@spectrepar2458]

@tameishalcampbell so mandate that its labeled?

[@joshmnky]

@@spectrepar2458 Too boring. Doesn't bring out the cameras.

[@user-pj5ff6xw4x]

How much did Ron get from the agricultural department😂

[@notthatronjohnson1187]

Protect the beef industry, the source of millions of dollars of campaign contributions. Pay em back gubner Ron.

[@gasmith7486]

This has nothing to do with money and everything to do with health and safety.

[@vomalites3439]

What is unsafe about meat being produced in lab sterile conditions?

[@notthatronjohnson1187]

@@gasmith7486 baloney

[@minisithunknown5568]

@@gasmith7486 Might as well ban all candy, alcohol and cigs for the public's health too. Or does it cut into the State's profits too much?

[@illpunchyouintheface9094]

⁠​⁠@@minisithunknown5568all those things are perfectly healthy! Quote - Gasmith

[@dankdweb]

Lol at people who claim to be libertarian supporting this government overreach

[@illpunchyouintheface9094]

Yea all these Americans go on and on about freedom and the rest of the bs. But oh boy the moment someone takes something from them, it party time!

[@tarumath319]

They abandoned the libertarian schtick long ago, they ban anything they don't like now.

[@RodneySlinger]

The issue is that the cattle industry will lose market share, so of course, the governor is against it.

[@FireForEffect1533]

The FDA approves cigarettes too.

[@OceanLife772]

And the Covid “vaccine”! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@spyoon_]

it simply does not. where did you hear that?

[@HigherQualityUploads]

They're FDA regulated, not FDA approved

[@mbarrett3146]

& VAPE

[@grannygrunt5211]

They do have a warning on them though on the label...

[@allwhatilove914]

“It’s safe, period!” Where did I heard that before???? 🤔

[@nickgregoris]

It should be your choice to comsume or not to consume it. You shouldn't outright ban it, ridiculous. Florida is so inconsistent with its "freedoms".

[@Robin-my4em]

🫏🕳️

[@robm9581]

Another freedom taken away by an idiot

[@obidenwhatajokeverysad5809]

F.j.b

[@user-kf5bz9xg3x]

Why? Why should they care,? Greed money,!

[@dalehutchings2233]

Bill Gates leads the lab grown meat industry and he's a huge fan of population control. Trust me, this is a great decision by DeSantis.

[@Valor80]

This is all about money, it's not fake meat it's real meat that's healthier than the industry. DeSantis is being paid for his ban.

[@francesmaurer185]

It's chemicals created to look like meat 😂 geez do some reseach !!🙄

[@Valor80]

@@francesmaurer185 our body's make chemicals reactions our entire life, that's how muscle is made. Do some research! The meat is literally grown with amino acids and carbohydrates.

[@drshadows1190]

Does anyone even trust usda anymore??

[@pastuleo79]

I remember as a kid seeing in tv and movies that in the future all we'd have to eat is a pill a day and that would supply all the nutrients we'd need for the whole day. This asshole would ban those pills because the chicken ranchers cried (and gave him a check). Thats how we advance as a society ron, by keeping everything the same?

[@Robin-my4em]

That was a MOVIE. Hard for you to know the difference I know. If you don’t know what you are talking about. You should keep your mouth shut. You end up looking like a complete 🫏🕳️🤡.

[@Javalin197Gaming]

So... The only reason this bill is signed is so that a new upcoming industry can't compete against an old existing one? If that really is the reason, then this is pretty stupid. Now, I know nothing about the quality or effectiveness of lab grown meat, but if it is somehow better, cost effective, healthier and quicker than raising and slaughtering cattle, then it seems like something that should be voted by the people's wallets, not because a politician dislikes it.

[@atorsionx9406]

Right now the most promising frontier seems to be fish. The scaffolding --which is made from gelatin or something, don't quote me on that- for fish meat is supposedly less complicated than that of land animals and they're getting close to a 1:1 texture. The problem with cultured meat by themselves is that without a scaffolding, they wouldn't have a defined shape to grow into, so the texture would be wrong.

[@flockofone9214]

Floridians cant afford their insurance yet the Governor chooses to spend his time on this nonsense.

[@mora103]

FDA approved like cheerios right? 😅

[@EasyWinking]

whats bad in cheerios though

[@mora103]

@@EasyWinking You will half to look it up 😅

[@maryparis576]

Wow, yet seniors are living on the streets.

[@jimbeam2705]

Really ?

[@penelopepigeon3510]

​@@jimbeam2705Over 15,000 homeless in Florida. And 3 million acres being used for beef production. We can build 192 average sized houses on 10 acres.

[@Onedimensional4141]

You could eat clean, lab-grown meat raw if you wanted to and not get sick. Can’t do that the natural way because it comes with intestines.

[@Michael-um5pd]

Yeah, I trust Federal Regulators. American Patriots grow a back bone and unite.

[@KimR03]

Demon meat

[@jenniferzamora6606]

How can we do this for ALL of America?!

[@CommunityUUG]

The problem is they will do their best to not label it as lab grown or they will try to sneak and mix it with natural meat.

[@Praying_Light_Force]

By Turning America Into N@zi_Germany!

[@CP-tq7id]

Why do you care?! If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.

[@jenniferzamora6606]

@@CP-tq7id I care about the provision of what is necessary for health and have compassion for others. I don’t intend to purchase knowingly as I also would not eat 💩 disguised as a steak just because someone said it’s good for me. Did you take a jab of their gogo juice and not use discernment?

[@thatguitarguy99]

​@user-iy1vo2jf2q It's not even publically available. You're thinking of plant-based meats. Regardless, how is taking choices away from people a good thing? Free market my ass

[@siobhanatwell9700]

We all need to do what Florida does.

[@SuperDarkrock]

Clear that sh!t out Publix! We raise our own beef. The gov. has been doing this for 100 years...no more.

[@ZColony]

Lower your prices then

[@TealBeal11]

Stores should have the freedom to sell it though...this is just lobbying dollars at work

[@ImperatorZor]

Artificial Fertilizers, Tractors, Mechanical Harvesters and Threshers were "threats to Agriculture as we know it" back in the day. If people like Meatball Ron had their way 3/4rds of us would be still be serfs.

[@Greeneggsandham123]

Working hard on stuff that isn’t a problem anywhere.

[@ownthispwn]

GOV. DESANTIS DOESNT MISS. THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE PRESIDENT

[@unimunoz1159]

I love the free market and the government staying out of it