DeSantis signs law banning lab-grown meat [Video]

WAUCHULA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning the sale of lab-grown meat.

Senate Bill 1084, sponsored by Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, will make changes related to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) with the most notable being the ban on the manufacture of cultivated meat. 

It’s a wide-ranging bill and would also ban local regulation of electric-vehicle charging stations by putting oversight under FDACS, which controls pumps at gas stations.

“Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere. We’re not doing that in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Hardee County. He later signed the legislation into law there. 

Supporters of the bill question the safety of cultivated meat. A potential research ban was removed from earlier versions of the bill because legislators thought the ban might affect the …