Nebraska’s Governor moves to ban lab-grown meat

In Nebraska, Governor Jim Pillen has signed an executive order “creating strict guidelines”  for state agencies and its contractors to “protect the state’s agriculture industry, as well as consumers, from lab-grown meat.”

The Governor also directed the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to initiate a rulemaking process to make sure that any lab-grown meat products sold in stores are properly labeled and are not marketed next to natural meat on the same shelves.

“Nebraska farmers and ranchers, like those here today, are committed to producing the best food products anywhere,” Pillen said at a signing ceremony. “We feed the world and we save the planet more effectively and more efficiently than anybody else and I will defend those practices with my last breadth[sic].”

This year, Iowa became the third state to sign legislation aimed at regulating the sale of lab-grown meat. Florida and Alabama have already moved to outright ban such products.