Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law this week that bans the sale of lab-grown meat in the Sunshine State. The move comes as the Republican governor seeks to protect the local agricultural industry in Florida.
DeSantis expounded on the new legal measure during a recent press conference where he will shield Florida agriculture from the radical left’s climate agenda that seeks to attack cattle farmers over their supposed role in climate change.
Furthermore, the governor indicated that he will not tolerate the agenda from the “global elites,” which seeks to coerce Americans into consuming “petri dish meat” and “bugs.” DeSantis maintained that he would fight such an agenda from the World Economic Forum through his new legislation.
“These will be people who will lecture the rest of us about things like global warming, they will say that you can’t drive a internal combustion engine vehicle, they’ll say that agriculture is bad, meanwhile, they’re flying to Davos and their private jets. This is really a vision of imposing restrictions on freedoms for everyday people while these elites are effectively pulling the strings, calling the shots, and doing whatever the hell they want to do in their own lives,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis also highlighted other efforts to protect citizens, stating, “We have fought it through standing up against things like Central Bank Digital Currency, where they want to be able to control your money; we fought against it by banning the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing land in the state of Florida; we have fought it by putting an end to woke banks denying or canceling financial services for Florida, just based on their political opinions; and we’ve also protected Floridians from government tracking of credit card transactions related to the purchase of firearms and ammunition. I think what they’re looking to do is create a social credit system. That’s what they have in China. And so your ability to participate in the economy, access credit, will be circumscribed by your ideological positions and your political positions.”
The governor further claimed that there is an agenda to entirely eliminate meat naturally produced meat, which would destroy the farming industry that has existed for hundreds of years in Florida. “They want to basically eliminate meat, they want to eliminate cattle, they want to eliminate chickens, and they want to create protein in laboratories,” he stated. “So it’s fake, essentially, lab-created meat, and their goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle, where you will not be developing meat like we’ve been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years in the State of Florida.”
DeSantis suggested the elites behind the scheme have to destroy the cattle farming industry because, the fake protein could not compete with consumer preferences toward natural meat. “That’s not really what they’re going for because they know if that was put out there to compete with with normal beef that they would lose. So what they want to do is put that out there and then say, ‘Well, wait a minute, you can do this in a lab. You don’t need to do cattle, you don’t need to do all this, so why don’t you just phase all that out?” Watch DeSantis’ press conference below:
He continued, “That’s ultimately the goal. Now they’re not at the point where they’re going to execute that today. But I think part of being good stewards of these industries, of the state, of the public well being, is to think of forward and head off threats before they even come.”
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