🧫🥩 UPSIDE FOODS HOSTS PRE-BAN CULTIVATED MEAT PARTY IN FLORIDA On Thursday evening, at a rooftop in Miami, UPSIDE Foods served customers some forbidden chicken. Forbidden, that is, from Monday, July 1, when Florida’s ban on cultivated meat comes into effect. Announced in May by the liberal-elite-hating mayor Ron DeSantis, the law will make a second-degree misdemeanour to manufacture, transport, commercialise or sell cultivated meat. But just to show Floridians what their state is forcing them to miss out on, Upside Foods took its meat straight to its capital. The pre-ban event featured recipes from Miami chef, restauranteur and TV personality Mika Leon, with drinks from mixologist Gio Gutierrez. The tasting was free of charge, which Upside Foods said was the first time cultivated meat has been offered to the public at no cost. This was deliberate. “We wanted to give as many people as possible the opportunity to taste cultivated meat in Florida before it’s banned,” the company’s COO, Amy Chen, told Green Queen. The event was co-hosted by the Brick & Timber Collective, a leading real estate company with properties in Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. “This policy not only affects cultivated meat but also stifles progress in biotech, life sciences, and other innovative industries that can thrive here. Opposing such policies is crucial to protect Florida and Miami as vibrant tech hubs,” said Jesse Feldman, a partner at the firm. A host of other states are deliberating restrictions on cultivated meat, from Arizona, Texas and Tennessee in the south, to Nebraska in the midwest and Wisconsin in the Great Lakes. Chen noted that any legislation that “discriminates against cultivated meat” is “disappointing”, whether it’s a ban, defamatory labelling (calling it ‘lab-grown meat’, for example), or research limitations. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/evnqg6P8 #GreenQueen #cultivatedmeat #foodsystems #policy #foodtech #innovation #futurefood
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2moI hate it when issues like this are wielded as political weapons. The government’s job should be to protect the public, by having the FDA make sure the food is safe (which they did). After that, each person should get to choose if they want to eat it or not. There is no reason that government needs to intervene in this (or any non-safety related issue), that’s just going too far.