Alabama has develop into the second U.S. state to outlaw the manufacturing and sale of cultivated meat.
Gov. Kay Ivey on Could 7 signed SB23 which can make it “illegal for any particular person to fabricate promote, maintain or supply on the market, or distribute any cultivated meals product” in Alabama. Based on the textual content of the invoice, “cultivated meals product” is outlined as any meals product produced from cultured animal cells.
Violation of the regulation could be thought-about a Class C misdemeanor.
The invoice additionally states that any meals gross sales institution discovered in violation of the regulation could be topic to disciplinary motion, which might embrace the suspension or revocation of its meals security allow.
SB23 additionally gave the Alabama Division of Agriculture and Industries and the Alabama Division of Public Well being authority to undertake associated guidelines “as essential.”
Whereas the sale and manufacturing of cultivated meats will likely be outlawed in Alabama, the invoice factors out that it’s going to nonetheless be authorized for analysis relating to the manufacturing of cultivated meals merchandise to be carried out by governmental or increased schooling entities.
The invoice, which was sponsored by Sen. Jack Williams, R-Wilmer, will develop into efficient October 1.
Ivey, a Republican, has been Alabama’s governor since 2017. Her determination to signal the invoice into regulation follows the same transfer made by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the same regulation in his state on Could 1. On the time, DeSantis stated signing that laws was a type of “combating again towards the world elite’s plan to pressure the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish.”
