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Some states are now trying to ban lab-grown meat (arstechnica.com)
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The "conservative" war on reality finds new depths to sink to

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[-] glovecraft@infosec.pub 27 points 8 months ago

State legislators from Florida to Arizona are seeking to ban meat grown from animal cells in labs, citing a “war on our ranching” and a need to protect the agriculture industry from efforts to reduce the consumption of animal protein, thereby reducing the high volume of climate-warming methane emissions the sector emits.

The same reason that they hate solar energy and other alternatives to oil. It's a "war" on oil sector profits. The environment be damned.

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