Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban and criminalize the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state, via the introduction of two bills.
Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois, the Republican who introduced a similar bill, HB 1071, told Politico that his major motivation is protecting the cattle industry. “Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida,” Sirois stated, adding, "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have.”
I don’t agree with him on the policy, but I’ll give him this: that’s more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I’ve seen.
Usually there’s something about how it’s potentially deadly or maybe waving around “concerns” about whether there’d be food security in a global famine or something.
It’s also a very stupid take. If that’s what he thinks, then he should finance farms that transition from growing animals to growing whatever is needed in this more modern and civilised world, like high protein legumes and that sort of stuff used in producing new generation foods.
I don’t agree with him on the policy, but I’ll give him this: that’s more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I’ve seen.
Usually there’s something about how it’s potentially deadly or maybe waving around “concerns” about whether there’d be food security in a global famine or something.
It’s also a very stupid take. If that’s what he thinks, then he should finance farms that transition from growing animals to growing whatever is needed in this more modern and civilised world, like high protein legumes and that sort of stuff used in producing new generation foods.
He also thinks it’s an affront to nature and creation that could lead to cloning, so yeah…
Wow that’s extremely anti capitalist and still sucks ass
Bravo to this guy, sucking in exactly all ways
By this logic, Florida should criminalize cars to protect the carriage industry
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