Florida bill banning lab-grown meat heads to DeSantis for signature NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

The Florida House on Wednesday gave final approval to a wide-ranging bill that would ban lab-grown meat and local regulation of electric-vehicle charging stations.

The Republican-controlled House voted 86-27 to approve the bill (SB 1084), which is ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The bill would make several changes related to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Democrats took aim at parts of the bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of cultivated meat, which DeSantis has denounced as “fake meat,” and prevent local governments from regulating electric-vehicle charging stations.

Rep. Lindsay Cross, D-St. Petersburg, said both bans are intended to “stop innovation, put barriers on the free market and to lock us into existing frameworks.”

Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, D-Parkland, said the “food fight” part of the bill “sends a bad message” to researchers and investors about cultivated meat, which is often known as lab-grown meat.

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