US EditionLab-Grown Barbecue Sales Banned in Texas
- Texas will ban the production, sale, and distribution of lab-grown meat starting September 1, 2025, following the enactment of Senate Bill 261 approved by Governor Greg Abbott.
- The law resulted from concerns protecting Texas's vital beef industry, which raises over 4.1 million cattle and produces nearly 15% of the U.S. beef supply.
- The bill criminalizes selling cell-cultured protein with misdemeanor or felony penalties and aims to prevent consumers from being exposed to potential health risks like microplastics.
- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called the ban a significant victory for ranchers, emphasizing that many Texans believe their food should come from traditional pastures rather than laboratory settings.
- This legislation makes Texas the seventh state banning lab-grown meat, underscoring ongoing disputes over food safety, industry protection, and consumer choice.
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COMMISSIONER MILLER PRAISES TEXAS LEGISLATURE FOR PUTTING A FORK IN LAB-GROWN MEAT
The bill banning lab-grown meat safeguards Texas agriculture and consumers AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today celebrated that Texas officially became the seventh state in the nation to ban the sale and production of lab-grown meat. The legislation, recently signed by Governor Greg Abbott, is now set to take effect on September 1, 2025. The measure will ban the sale of cell-cultured protein products for human consumption acr…
In Texas, a Ban on Lab-Cultivated Meat Reflects Deeper Divides
The state becomes the seventh in the United States to prohibit the sale of meat cultivated from animal cells.Food & Wine / Getty ImagesKey PointsTexas has passed a law banning lab-grown meat: Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 261, which prohibits the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured protein in the state starting September 1, 2025.Supporters point to safety and agricultural issues: Backed by the Texas & Southwestern Catt…
The first-ever cultivated-meat fish just got FDA approval. Its CEO talks about how Wildtype got there.
For the first time ever, you can eat a real fish that was never alive. In early June, Wildtype, a San Francisco-based lab-grown meat company, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell its cultivated sushi-grade salmon saku after a yearslong waiting game. The company is only the fourth to receive FDA approval for cultivated meat in the U.S., joining Upside Foods and Good Meat, which both sell laboratory-grown chicken, …
Texas governor signs law banning sale of lab-grown meat
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill making it illegal to sell lab-grown meat in the state.In 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the countrys first lab-grown chicken, meat produced from chicken cells without harming or slaughtering the animals.Supporters say lab-grown meat can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the risk of disease, pollution and the destruction of wild habitats.But the concept of lab-produced meat has raised con…
Texas joins six other states in banning lab-grown meat
AUSTIN (KXAN) - If you're hoping to eat a meatball made of wooly mammoth and grown in a lab, you're going to have to leave 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. Pieces of Good Meat's cultivated chicken is shown at the Eat Just office in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2…
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