Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Wednesday banning the sale and manufacturing of lab-grown meat in the Sunshine State. In a press conference announcing the signing of Senate Bill 1084, DeSantis touted the legislation as part of his administration’s commitment to stimulating a “vibrant agriculture industry” and protecting Florida’s ranchers from the “ideological agenda” of “global elites and the World Economic Forum.”
Lab-grown meat, also known as cultivated meat, is bursting into international markets as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional meat sources like livestock and poultry. Unlike normal meat products harvested by killing an animal, lab-grown meat is produced in metal vats from cell cultures taken from a living animal and then supplied with a nutrient solution of amino acids, vitamins, and lipids.
Producing these meat alternatives is difficult to do at a commercial scale, but millions of dollars have been poured into the industry in recent years to speed up development. Last year, two California startups secured regulatory approval to sell lab-grown chicken in the US. However, even as the industry advances, experts still question the health risks and benefits of consuming the meat alternative, and some states are proactively banning it.
Florida now joins Alabama, Arizona, and Tennessee in restricting or outright banning lab-grown meat products.
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Uniquely to Florida, however, DeSantis framed the ban not as simply a health measure or a means of protecting local farmers, but also as a critical blow to the global elite. Unlike with legislation DeSantis has signed in the past, SB 1084 protects the agriculture industry from “acts of man” and the “ideological agenda of those who would blame ranchers for climate change.
“These will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming, they will say that you can’t drive an internal combustion engine vehicle, they’ll say that agriculture is bad, meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos and their private jets,” he said. “This is really a vision of imposing restrictions on freedoms for everyday people while these elites are effectively pulling the strings, calling the shots, and doing whatever the hell they want to do in their own lives.”
Global elites want to control our behavior and push a diet of petri dish meat and bugs on Americans.
Florida is saying no. I was proud to sign SB 1084 to keep lab grown meat out of Florida and prioritize our farmers and ranchers over the agenda of elites and the World Economic… pic.twitter.com/vHdWaJtckU— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 1, 2024
According to the governor, this means that the policies of the World Economic Forum are “dead on arrival” in Florida.
“We have fought it through standing up against things like Central Bank Digital Currency, where they want to be able to control your money; we fought against it by banning the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing land in the state of Florida; we have fought it by putting an end to woke banks denying or canceling financial services for Florida, just based on their political opinions; and we’ve also protected Floridians from government tracking of credit card transactions related to the purchase of firearms and ammunition,” he continued. “I think what they’re looking to do is create a social credit system. That’s what they have in China. And so your ability to participate in the economy, access credit, will be circumscribed by your ideological positions and your political positions.”
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DeSantis also mocked the WEF’s proposal that nations begin consuming insects as an alternative to beef and chicken.
“They want to basically eliminate meat, they want to eliminate cattle, they want to eliminate chickens, and they want to create protein in laboratories,” he said. “So it’s fake, essentially, lab-created meat, and their goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle, where you will not be developing meat like we’ve been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years in the State of Florida.”
Governor DeSantis tells the truth about the WEF agenda, why they are pushing lab-grown meat, and why Florida says NO 👇🎯@GovRonDeSantis: "They want to basically eliminate meat. They want to eliminate cattle, they want to eliminate chicken, all this stuff. They want to create… pic.twitter.com/axtbfwKlgl
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 1, 2024
The agriculture bill, sponsored by Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, also preempts local regulations for electric vehicles and prohibits the willful destroying, harvesting or selling of saw palmetto berries on private or public land without permission. It also increases penalties for trespassing on commercial agricultural property.
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There may be some merit in the nutritional value of eating bugs.
In the Bible, John the Baptist is known to have consumed locusts and wild honey, Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6.
Locusts were considered clean and edible, Leviticus 11:22, and wild honey symbolized abundance and the sweetness of God’s promises, Matthew 3:4.
Locusts contain essential polyunsaturated and saturated fats and contain minerals like iodine, phosphorus, and iron.
While locusts provide a greater source of protein than cows, they do lack an essential amino acid methionine.
Wild honey is high in antioxidants and has antibacterial properties. It provides essential sugars and nutrients, adding a natural sweetness to the diet.
The Bible does not give reasons why John The Baptist resorted to eating locusts and wild honey.
Furthermore the Bible does not mention if John The Baptist consumed other kinds of food including fish and beef when he was not eating locusts and wild honey.
However it does not justify a top down approach by secular institutions to impose their world view of justifying how people have their nutritional means met.
In addition there is no evidence that there is a corresponding reduction in CO2 by substituting bugs for cows reduces and temperature.
The dictation of how people eat on the basis of climate change is another example of the confected crisis of a climate emergency.
The confected crisis comes from the school of Columbia academics Cloward and Piven who devised a theory of social change using organised “grassroots” groups.
Instead of “grassroots” groups affecting social change social change comes from fora such as the WEF.
Google search Cloward and Piven and there are plenty of sources of their strategies applied to engineer a socialist change.
From Sydney.