Texas Banned Lab-Grown Meat. What’s Next for the Industry?

Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?

A legal battle is brewing, as two companies are suing to overturn the two-year ban.

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Last week, a legal battle over lab-grown meat kicked off in Texas. On September 1, a two-year ban on the technology went into effect across the state; the following day, two companies filed a lawsuit against state officials. The two companies, Wildtype Foods and Upside Foods, are part of a growing industry that aims to bring new types of food to people’s plates. These products, often called cultivated meat by the industry, take live animal cells…

Why Upside Foods & Wildtype Are Suing Texas for Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban

7 Mins Read A day after Texas’s ban on cultivated meat came into force, two food tech startups sued the state for its decision. Their legal team explains why. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law to ban cultivated meat in the state, companies had just over two months before it went into effect. In that period, Wildtype, a US startup approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell cultivated salmon nationwide, debuted its produ…