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What's On Your Plate?

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19.02.2025

I tried meat grown in a lab.

It tastes like ... well ... meat.

I guess it is meat, but it's not grown the normal way.

Scientists extract meat cells from an animal and then grow them in a bioreactor, much like ones you see in a brewery. There, the cells divide again and again until you get ... meat.

If you want to try some, you'll soon be able to.

But not in Florida or Alabama.

There, politicians banned it. Other states now may ban it, too.

"We appreciate that ban," says Bill Bullard. He lobbies for cattlemen. In my video, he argues, "If not for Alabama and Florida (banning) it, then the meat packers would have the ability to pass it off to unsuspecting consumers as if it were indeed a meat product, which it is not!"

I push back. "But they don't conceal it! They say (on the label), this is 'cultivated' meat."

"It's not produced........

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