‘Political efforts': the Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat | Republicans | The Guardian

I still dont fricking understand how its possible to create meat using less overall energy than bonking a cow on the head.

Cows: field, a few ranchers.

Labmeat: sterile climate controlled facility, with 100 employees (support staff is larger than you think).

legislation that would ban the production or sale of cell-cultivated meat, despite the fact that cell-cultivated meat isn't actually on sale anywhere in the country. But experts say these new laws sweeping red states aren't so much about the many safety, ethical and environmental questions lab-grown meat pose – they're about the culture wars.

Although more than 150 companies are now working in the cell-cultivated meat industry worldwide, it's not yet widely available to the public: Only two restaurants in the US have sold cultivated meat. In 2023, restaurants in San Francisco and Washington DC sold cell-cultivated chickens developed by Upside Foods and Good Meat – but those products are no longer available at either restaurant.