The Alabama Senate passed a bill to ban cultured meat and it will now be sent to the House of Representatives, where it could become law, online publication Green Queen reports on February 20.
The legislation would make it a crime to produce, sell or distribute meat grown in the southern state. If you own a restaurant and hope to offer cultured meat to diners, you may be judged.
Thirty-two of the state’s 35 senators voted in favor of the bill and none opposed it. This means the document now heads to the Alabama House of Representatives. “The problem is that we have a lot of food in our state. We have a lot of cattle and chickens. “We have no reason to bring this product here.”said one of the senators, Jack Williams. He expressed concern about the safety of cultured meat.
Product advocates said the Senate was ignoring evaluations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the FDA, which found the two companies’ cultured chicken was safe to eat. They also recalled that Alabama is home to a poultry farm where less than four months ago nearly 48,000 birds died due to pathogenic avian influenza.
Williams noted that cultured meat is not known to “I’ll do it for you later”: “We still don’t know what it will do to your body. “It hasn’t been researched enough.”.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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