Florida farmers weigh in on possible ban of lab-grown meat [Video]

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Meat grown in a lab and shaped to look like chicken or burgers could be coming to your grocery store unless Florida lawmakers ban it. 

They are debating bills that would bar the sale of cultivated meat. Ranchers in south central Florida feel it would threaten a major part of Florida’s agriculture.

North of Dade City in Pasco County, Joe Planz tends to his herd of beef cattle on a 200-acre ranch.

“What’s not to love about what I do?” he says. “I get to be out here in God’s wonderful world with God’s creatures.”

Planz is part of the billion-dollar beef industry in Florida — a long history that goes back hundreds of years. The role of ranchers is a hot topic this year in Tallahassee as lawmakers usher the two bills along, …