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"We're going to have fake meat? That doesn't work. We're going to make sure to do it right. But there's a whole ideological agenda that's coming after, I think, a lot of important parts of our society."
Governor DeSantis signed a bill outlawing the sale and manufacturing of lab-grown meat at a press conference in Hardee County on Wednesday.More scientism hubris, thinking that man can replicate the intricacies of natural processes.
DeSantis spoke at the Hardee County Cattleman's Arena in Wauchula where he signed Senate Bill 1084 into law. SB 1084 makes several changes within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, namely prohibiting the manufacture, sale, holding, or distribution of 'cultivated meat' in Florida.
In addition to the ban on lab-grown meat, the bill preempts local governments from regulating electric vehicle charging stations. It also will increase criminal penalties for people who commit crimes on Florida farms.
"In the State of Florida, we've put down the marker very clearly: we stand with agriculture," DeSantis said. "We stand with the cattle ranchers. We stand with our farmers. Because we understand it's important for the backbone of the state, it's important for the culture, it's important for our heritage."
Comment: The crackdown came amidst commentary by Netanyahu that the US, basically, needed to curtail the right to free speech with regards to condemnation of Israel.
What's perhaps also notable about these protests is that, whilst the shocking response of the authorities may indeed be intended to quickly quell the growing protest movement, when one considers previous protests - such as Occupy and BLM - such a response often serves to have the opposite effect.
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