Michigan lawmaker aims to ban the sale of lab-grown meats statewide

The bill doesn’t address consumer health or safety concerns but seeks to remove consumer choice, Shoshana Weissmann, R Street’s digital media director, told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email.

“In Florida, Gov. DeSantis didn’t even pretend his actions were about anything but pure industry protectionism,” Weissmann wrote. “For years, some in the meat industry have tried to prevent vegetable imitations of meat from using free speech to describe its product accurately. Now it is moving onto the next economic threat.”