Upside Foods, a cultivated meat company, is challenging a Florida law that bans the production, distribution and sale of cultivated meat products.
The company has partnered with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, to take on the case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. In May, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis signed into law a bill that banned and criminalized the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat in the state.
“Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” DeSantis said.
“We will save our beef.” Paul Sherman, an attorney for Institute for Justice, said: “This law is not about safety; it’s about stifling innovation and protecting entrenched interests at the expense of consumer choice.”
