DeSantis bans lab-grown meat in the state of Florida.

the_rowan posted...

Not sure how you drew that conclusion? I would say it's more the inverse, that only people who have an extremely narrow viewpoint (or profit off the current model and could not profit from lab-grown meat, but that's a different matter) would not be open to lab-grown meat as an option.

I have not been closely following the development of the technology, but anything that pushes the meat industry towards something with less environmental impact, less harm to animals, and lower costs is a win for me. Turning cattle rearing back into a smaller practice where the health of individual animals can be better maintained and monitored could be a win for health and safety as well, although there is the risk that the lab process would just open itself up to the same sorts of dangerous shortcuts as other industries, or counterfeiting, so it's not without risk (because corporate and individual greed manages to make everything suck).

Cattle and chickens would still be killed because they would wind up like deer and need to be culled. They are both too domesticated to survive on their own.