Florida is right to ban lab-grown meat

Florida banned lab-grown meat this week in a decision that was derided by many commentators as a silly encroachment on the free market, but the Sunshine State’s policy is actually protecting an industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people from destruction.

While not yet a widely available commercial product, lab-grown meat, which is grown from existing animal cells, is widely seen as the future of food production. Advocates of the product say it is no different from farm-grown meat and is necessary to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

The push for lab-grown meat is also seen as a project of the global elite, embodied by the World Economic Forum, which has advanced various ideas to change drastically the kind of food that people consume. The most famous of these is calling for insects to be a staple of human diets to curb climate change.