Michigan rep. introduces cultivated meat ban

From an article in MeatingPlace by Joanne Cleaver

A Michigan state representative, who also is a cattle farmer, has introduced a bill intended to ban cultivated meat from being sold in the state. Republican Rep. Jim DeSana’s House Bill 5879 is being considered by the agricultural committee.

In a statement, DeSana derided the “follow-the-science” crowd, whom he grouped with covid-related public health directives. “I don’t want lab-grown meat as a substitute for the real thing and I don’t want to get my protein by eating bugs. Let the chickens eat the bugs the way nature intended; we’ll eat the chickens,” he said in the statement.

The legislation defines “cultivated meat” as “a meat or meat product that was produced from cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the animal from which the cells were derived.”

“This is about protecting our ranchers and about protecting the integrity of our food supply,” DeSana said. He and his spouse raise sheep, cattle and chickens in a semi-rural district south of Detroit.

Link to Rep DeSana’s Bill: HERE

Link to statement: HERE