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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDeSantis said the bill (SB 1084), which includes a series of changes related to the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, will protect the state\u2019s cattle industry against \u201can ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne of the things that these folks want to eliminate is meat production in the United States,\u201d DeSantis said while behind a podium stating \u201cSave Our Beef\u201d at the Hardee County Cattlemen’s Arena in Wauchula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opponents have contended that preventing sales or manufacturing of lab-grown, or cultivated, meat will halt innovation and create barriers for the free market.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe bill, in part, will make it a second-degree misdemeanor to sell or manufacture cultivated meat. The manufacturing process includes taking a small number of cultured cells from animals and growing them in controlled settings to make food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The measure doesn\u2019t prohibit cultivated meat research because of concerns that such a ban could affect the space industry, which is looking at cultivated meats for long-term space journeys. The bill passed during the legislative session that ended March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Backers of cultivated meat argued during the session that the bill could increase concerns by venture capitalists about investing in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA ban like this threatens a free market and sets a dangerous precedent for government interference,\u201d Emily Bogan, of New Jersey-based Fork & Good, Inc. told a House panel in February. \u201cWe want to ensure that affordable meat is available for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Justin Kolbeck, the co-founder of San Francisco-based seafood company Wildtype, said during the same House meeting that the measure will likely announce Florida as \u201cclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFar from protecting American jobs, banning cultivated seafood in the United States will deepen our country’s dependence on imports from countries like China,\u201d Kolbeck said. \u201cThis ban will create Chinese jobs at the expense of small businesses like mine. And this ban will also stifle innovation in Florida as investment dollars are redirected towards more business-friendly states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill also drew debate because it will prevent local governments from regulating electric vehicle charging stations. It will place oversight of electric-vehicle charging stations under the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which already regulates pumps at gas stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supporters argued the change would eliminate a \u201cpatchwork\u201d of requirements that businesses face across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Kim Ross, of ReThink Energy Florida, called the proposed preemption \u201coverreaching\u201d and warned it could \u201cstifle\u201d growth in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Senate staff analysis during the session said Florida had 3,230 public charging stations in 44 of the 67 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A 2021 state law prohibited local governments from mandating such things as electric-vehicle charging stations on gas retailers. That law was in reaction to a move by Petaluma, Calif., to ban new gas stations with the intention of accelerating the shift to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jim Turner The News Service of Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a controversial measure that will bar selling or manufacturing lab-grown meat in Florida and prevent local… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[8358],"class_list":["post-44876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-desantis-sticks-fork-in-lab-grown-meat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44880,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions\/44880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WB-EV-CHARGING-PIC-4.webp?resize=1110%2C624&ssl=1\")
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