Why states are suddenly making it a crime to sell lab-grown meat | Florida and Alabama have banned lab meat, but some in the livestock industry fear the precedent of states deciding what goes on store shelves, and what can’t.

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1. Political theater in peak form. Banning a product that doesn’t even exist.

2. God. When it comes to climate change, and needing to change our species way of life to sustain our survival, the USA are going to be the big bad final boss, aren’t they?

3. At this point I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be too hard for democrats to steal away the branding of being the party of “small government”.

4. Pushing water uphill with a rake!

5. Really opens the door to banning meat altogether. I doubt that’s what they’re going for, but it would be a funny (and good!) development

6. Land of the free.

7. Is there any kind of legal challenge they can make here?

   Can states outlaw products just “because I said so!”

   There’s no real legal justification here, right? Can the state use it’s power to shut down businesses just because it likes other businesses more? For example, if DeSantis had a buddy who runs a Toyota dealership, could he pass a law outlawing Honda and others? Can states really ban products based on a whim like that?

8. red states will decide what you are allowed to eat, read, amd watch on your computer and television. Freedumb indeed. GOp voters are weak-minded peasants

9. Irony is they may pave the way for vegan legislation

10. $

11. Capitalism only when it’s in their favor apparently, using law to kill competition is definitely anti capitalism. Lab meat is a threat to the lobbying mofos in the meat industry.

12. dead, decaying, rotting, bloody corpse full of disease, ecoli, bacteria, salmonella, hormones and pharmaceuticals from an animal tortured and murdered in its own sht…that becomes cancerous when cooked, destroys the arteries, and is the leading cause of acid reflux and IBS…..you are what you eat…cheer

13. The right needs a new bogeyman.

14. Cavemen…

    Imagine, the argument is “NO!  We must always use environmentally destructive methods and torture and slaughter thinking and feeling animals!!” 

    There is literally no upside to the bans except to “keep the $ flowing”.  And people are lapping it up.

    What a world

15. It’s just the party of small government deciding what you can and can’t buy. Nothing unsafe about the product, but hey, it’s more Big Ag money in their pockets, so what can you do? The easy answer is vote them out.

16. I have only eaten beef 3 times since January bc I watched documentary You are what you eat…. super eye opening. I want a burger sooooo bad, but when i think of how the animals are treated, I feel nauseous.