Gov. DeSantis signs sweeping agriculture bill prohibiting sale of lab-grown meat in Florida [Video]

HARDEE COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Wednesday in Hardee County, where he signed sweeping agriculture bill meant in part to ban the sale of lab-grown meat in the state.

Surrounded by cattle ranchers at the Hardee County Cattleman’s Arena near Wauchula, the governor signed SB 1084 — “Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services” — calling the legislation necessary protection against what he claimed were forces determined to “eliminate meat production in the United States,” comparing said forces to historic agricultural threats such as storms and citrus greening.

“Those are, though, natural disasters. Those are acts of God. What we’re protecting here is the industry against acts of man, against an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem, that views things like raising cattle as destroying our climate,” DeSantis said.

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