Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will “save our beef” from the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”.
“Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs,” Mr DeSantis said in a statement.
The first-in-the-nation law prohibits anyone from selling or distributing lab-grown meat in Florida.
Similar efforts are under way in Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee.
Lab-grown or “cultivated” meat was first cleared for consumption in the US in 2022.
The process of making cultivated meat involves extracting cells from an animal, which are then fed with nutrients such as proteins, sugars and fats. The end product is genetically indistinguishable from traditionally produced meat.
Studies have suggested that eating cultivated meat can cut carbon emissions and water usage, and free up land for nature, compared to eating traditionally produced meat.
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Ah, the ‘global elite,’ who they also call ‘globalists.’ And who are they talking about?
The term is now frequently used as a pejorative by far-right movements and conspiracy theorists, as in the New World Order conspiracy theory;[3] it is associated with antisemitism, as antisemites frequently appropriate the term globalist to refer to Jews.[3][4][5]
He is just a turd.
I think the term has no real meaning to them anymore. It’s just another term thrown at anything they don’t like, like “woke” or whatever. I’m sure some definitely use it deliberately, but I think most lack the directed prejudice and just use it lazily as a catch-all for “liberal”.
That’s the whole point of obfuscating it in the first place. If you come out and say “Jews who control the world want to force everyone to eat bugs”, you sound like an idiot. So, you give it a candy coating to make it go down better, and hope a certain percentage will eventually “do their own research” and come to your desired conclusion.
It’s the most strategically sound method you can come up with to perpetuate the conspiracy theories in the modern day. It’s similar to how cults don’t start the recruitment process by walking up to you and going “Hey, want to join a cult?”
The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”
It’s part of the “other,” which is used to create fear that drives support for their politicians.
Right wing leaders and their propagandists can’t be too specific with concepts because large parts of them are contrived. They don’t need to be specific because their target audience is people who think and make decisions more with emotions, which doesn’t require clear concepts and terms, than reason.
“The left” absolutely does it too, although it’s not as bad.
It’ll be a new culture war thing next week anyway
Remember, that’s just a wild conspiracy. Criticizing the Israeli government’s genocide is antisemitic though…
The way you’ve phrased this sounds like you think there really is a Jewish cabal that runs the world and is ruining it.
I apologize if you thought I was implying that. I am in no way agreeing that there is a “Deep State” or anything to that effect. I was trying to draw criticism to DeSantis’ use of the word Globalists, which does have antisemitic overtones, while the House just passed a bill that could lead to criticism of Israel in any way would count as antisemitism.
Sarcasm on the internet is hard to convey.
Thanks for clarifying, I didn’t understand the comment either. (I did not downvote it, however.)
Gotcha. I understand now.
Also the Harvard/Yale grad complaining about “elites”. Tell me again who gets into those schools? The run-of-the-mill pablum?
The ‘global elite’ wouldn’t touch lab grown meat. This stuff is meant to sustain the poor when cow meat production becomes cost prohibitive (it already is without government subsidies).
That’s ridiculous. Every scientist I have ever seen involved in this field says it is about getting people to give up or at least eat less meat for the good of the planet.
Our points don’t disagree. Point #1 The goal is food production in order to sustain a growing population. Current production is ecologically and economically unsustainable. Point #2 The “global elite” wouldn’t be caught dead eating lab grown meat unless they are doing a promo for the “lab grown meat” company.
Conservative “Free Market Values” at play
Do his supporters really believe hes an “every man” like them, and not literally one of the “global elite”?
His supporters love hierarchy. All they want is white supremacist hierarchy. If they are in a middle tier and the bottom tiers are suffering that is their ideal society.
What? Its nothing to do with banning meat - its the message and reason as to why its being banned.
“Ban lab meat because the global elite!” vs “Ban lab meat to support farmers”.
It’s the same line of reasoning with different excuses; I don’t like it so no one should have it.
My comment was literally only calling out his “global elite” remark. Thats it.
Libs are fine with the same outcomes as long as you use the right words. It’s wild.
“To fight authoritarianism, the government is going to restrict your dietary choices!”
- Don Insantis
Actual literal double-think
I didn’t realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!
I want lab grown steaks so bad. Why are these ‘Capitalist’ so against the free market?
They always have been. Capitalism isn’t about a free market, it’s about keeping the richest most powerful industrialists at the top.
Imo this is clearly influenced by the meat lobby, National Cattleman’s Beef Association, or the like. They know many people would happily pay for lab grown meat, which would destroy their current market, forcing a costly pivot where they would lose their historic market control.
Whenever weird shit like this happens in the US, it’s all about money and market control and then painted as “protecting you from the EVIL LEFT” or some stupid shit.
I want a steak machine next to my ice maker!
What a cool party of freedom and personal responsibility
So, if the ‘global elite’ are not the 1%, and as seen from this whole Gaza thing, they are not ‘the jews’ (which is what I though Republicans were always coyly referring to when they used that term), who the heck do the Republicans think the ‘Global Elite’ are?
Queer students, the vaccinated, and single moms who have to work 3 shitty jobs to pay rent. Those are the true global elite.
Anyone who tries to benefit society without concern for profit.
Actually, anyone who tries to do anything without concern for profit.
If you’re not familiar with the Farengi from Star Trek, look them up. It matches Republicans pretty well.
especially including how they treat women.
sorry, “Feeemales”.
Whoevet they do t like at any given moment
college kids with like 50k in debt.
Florida seems to ban something every week.
It’s not enough to be cast aside for veganism now I can’t even have a choice of what to eat? WTF!
For someone’s who’s a big capitalist, it seems like he’s never heard of a free market economy. Just let the market decide which meat is best. Or better yet, let the people!
This is not an endorsement of our late-stage capitalist economy, rather a critic of Ronny’s hypocrisy.
Maybe? I mean the big criticism is that it’s just highly processed food at the end of the day and that the process of production is what is the issue. This is of course an argument made by what you may call food purists, who’d rather you spend money on a proper blender than rely on big corporations to form Scop 2.0.
But that’s not what Ronnie boy is thinking about. Oh no. He’s thinking about “owning the libs”, “showing them what for”, and what kind of cretinous, disingenuous bastard he can be. He would gladly invest in something like Scop 2.0 if it made a lot of money, AND performatively ban it in his state if it vaguely had an LGBTQ+ tinge to it.
This is a careful reminder that some states banned solar panels out of spite… because people elect absolute troglodytes to represent them, and then have the balls to talk about “free markets”.
GTFO here with your fake self. In fact, take the whole republican party with you.
Which states ban solar panels?
Which governments ban tik Tok?
Pretty sure solar panels are legal in the US, jackass.
Pretty sure Tik Tok isn’t, jackass
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“global elite”
That’s weird, all my dogs just started barking.
It’s with a heavy heart that I must warn you that your dogs are racist.
The thing I love about the lab grown beef thing is that steaks will be really cheap when it scales I guess Desantis wants to use expense taxpayer dollars when he eats a steak That is the kinda fiscal responsibility you can expect from the right
the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”.
Real “Spiderman pointing at Spiderman” energy here.
