Mississippi House Representatives just passed a bill that just banned cultivation meat. As a result, Mississippi makes it the third state that prohibits meat grown in VAT in a small animal cell sample.
that Mississippi bill Everyone will illegally make the meat grown in the week. Violation of the law will be a misdemeanor, a fine of up to $ 500, and up to three months in the county prison. Similar laws in Florida and Alabama last year impose a potential prison or a maximum $ 500 fine.
This bill is now waiting for the Governor of Tate Reeves and will be the law if you do not choose to reject the bill. Andy Gipson, the head of the agricultural agricultural agricultural director of Mississippi, criticized the cultivated meat industry, and in 2019, the bill was supported by the main meat from the main meat. In 2024 he published a post on a website that praises Florida and Alabama’s ban on cultivation. “I want Steak to come out of the weak beef from the farm, not the Petri dishes in the lab.
“This has a very strong political theater sense,” said Suzi Gerber, managing director of meat, poultry and seafood innovation associations (Suzi Gerber). She said in these states that the actual impact of the law will be minimized.
Republicans Bill Pigott and Leicester Carpenter introduced the Mississippi bill in January 2025. But in other states, similar bills had a soft path. no way Wyoming bill In February, the meat that was cultivated in the third reading would have been voted. Similar bills proposed in southern Dakota Senate vote february.
Gerber said, “I was surprised by the result in that week, but I was encouraged. In Wioming, some senators insisted on better packaging and labeling instead of thorough ban on cultivation while in South Dakota. Some legislators opposed He insisted that the ban would interfere with free trade.
In other states, we are considering legislation similar to what has already been passed in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The bill introduced January Georgia Selling cultivated meat will be illegal. There is a bill in Nebraska. Prohibit grown meat The state was introduced in January at the request of the governor of Jim Pillen.
The Florida Ban Ordinance is currently competing in a court case raised by the California Architecture Foods and the Institute of Justice, a non -profit public interest law firm. The case argues that the Florida ban violates two parts of the US Constitution, dealing with the relationship between weekly commerce, federal law and state law. The federal judge refused in October Request for prohibition order for rising foods It would have stopped Florida’s ban on the cultivated meat.
The steady water droplets of the national ban matched the stagnation of investor enthusiasm for the cultivated meat. It was $ 226 million Invested in a new company In 2023, it has decreased significantly from $ 922 million in 2022. In early 2024, the rise was fired by workers, and scientists based in California were closed. Late that year.
However, there are several signs of the industry that is weathering this headwind. On March 8, San Francisco -based meat company, Mission Barns, announced that there is no more question about the safety of pork products grown by food pharmacy. I received a similar letter from the FDA, which is the other two companies that are two other companies. Mission Barns now only requires approval from the US Department of Agriculture to start in the United States.
