Florida Becomes First State to Ban ‘Fake Meat’

The law is an effort to push back against the plan by global elites to force the world to consume ’meat grown in a Petri dish or bugs,' said Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 6, 2018. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the legislation, SB1084, into law at a ceremony in Wauchula on May 1. The sweeping 81-page agricultural package officially bans “the manufacture for sale, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat” in the Sunshine State.