“Florida and Alabama ban cultivated meat” by Ben Millwood

This is a link post. This was ~three weeks ago, so I'm a little surprised I couldn't already find anything about it on the forum. Maybe I'm just bad at searching? Anyway, Ron DeSantis posted the following around the same time as the Florida ban: https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1785684809467011431 I suspect the real motivations are more ordinary protectionism, but it seems like potentially a sign that cultivated meat might start getting politicized / embroiled in the broader culture war, though also (perhaps surprisingly) DeSantis has had supportive comments from a Democratic senator (see Vox again). I'm interested in the extent to which alt-meat startups and policy folk were surprised by this move – whether this represents a more hostile environment than we expected, or whether this was "already priced in". I tried to look at stock prices, but based on some quick searches only found one publically-traded cultivated meat stock STKH, and don't [...] --- First published: May 30th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ohNpHQAZXthBZERa5/florida-and-alabama-ban-cultivated-meat --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.