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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

With that stupid fucking "they want to make us eat bugs" bullshit...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Every person still buying and consuming animal products paid for this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

S.O.B.

SAVE OUR BEEF

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

You are part of the elite you stupid stupid fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What an idiot. So now I can't buy impossible burgers?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To my understanding, Impossible burgers are plant based / vegan. They aren’t lab grown meats of indistinguishably beef DNA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Correct, those burgers are made from soy and potato protein. No meat in any form inside.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thats good to know. Still, our govenor is an idiot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I ban your life

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Florida seems to ban something every week.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Florida seems to ban something every week.

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

and "small government"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Conservative are just so fucking stupid that it hurts my brains every god damn day having to deal with their fragile mental bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I first read "International Jerry," and wondered for a second what Seinfeld had done this time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Pretty standard antisemitic dog whistle.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

and eat da bugs.

I'M DOING MY PART!

Would you like to know more?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Korean bar near me has a dish with silkworm pupae and I am certainly curious. Mealworms and crickets haven’t been bad, but I usually only eat them to psych out Boy Scouts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining you going around grossing out actual children Boy Scouts by eating progressively weirder things in front of them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also showing off my pet vinegaroon, Tortilla (RIP), who’d make the whole room smell like vinegar and looked like a monster. Dare them to pet the hissing cockroaches and tell them about the professor at my university who let a tick feed off of her for weeks to prove that species was able to parasitize humans.

Most of my working life has been spent grossing out children, it’s pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hahaha that's great

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

It's a dog whistle yes

[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Ok you guys, this is too silly. I’m not buying it any more. You can let me out of the simulation now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Subtly serve Ron a dish including lab grown meat for dinner one day, see if he notices the difference

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lab grown meat is not vegan. It is “real” meat grown from animal cells. But yes, the joke is still funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No true vegan? After a certain point that seems a bit like arguing that corn isn't vegan because it was fertilized with cow droppings, but...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It depends on the type of vegan. If they are vegan because they don’t like hurting animals, then lab grown meat is fine. If they are vegan because eating meat has a negative effect on their health, then it’s not fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You offer it to me freely??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...well, no, it's actually much more expensive than subsidised beef, but that's not important right now: KNEEL!..

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