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.
  • vegantomato@lemmy.world
    63·
    4 months ago

    I have no idea what is going on. Is the article biased and not telling us something we should know about the reasoning behind these bills? Are these politicians taking payment from “big-meat”?

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      4 months ago

      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

      Safe to say they’re 100% taking bribes from the cattle industry

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      92·
      4 months ago

      Almost certainly yes, because ag business loves their government subsidies.