AUSTIN (KXAN) — If someone wants to eat a meatball made of wooly mammoth and grown in a lab, they're going to have to do it outside of Texas.

A new law passed this legislative session has made it illegal to sell "cell culture protein for human consumption within" Texas. Senate Bill 261 will go into effect Sept. 1, 2025, and will expire in 2027.

The law makes Texas the seventh state to ban the sale of lab-grown or cultured meat. Indiana passed a similar law in May. Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida also have bans in effect.

"As ranchers, we produce 19% of the world's beef with only 6% of the world's cattle," said Carl Ray Polk, with the Texas Southwest........

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