Nebraska's governor implemented an executive order Thursday banning Cornhusker State institutions from purchasing “cultured meat.”
“To the fullest extent permitted by law, state agencies may not procure meat that has been grown in a laboratory,” the Nebraska order, now signed by the governor, reads.
Republican Governor Jim Pillen said: According to a press release on Friday“The Nebraska farmers and ranchers here today are committed to producing some of the best food anywhere.”
“We are feeding the world and saving the planet more effectively and efficiently than anyone else, and I will defend these practices with every fiber of my being,” Pillen continued.
Pillen's signing of the executive order follows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' (R) signing a bill banning cultured meat in the state earlier this year. At the time, the governor said, “Florida is fighting back against the plans of global elites to feed the world meat grown in petri dishes and insects to further their authoritarian objectives.”
“Our administration will remain focused on investing in our local farmers and ranchers and protecting beef,” Governor DeSantis continued in a previous press release.
Good meat, Describe yourself as Its website claims it is “the world's first company to sell cultured meat.” That said “I'm disappointed” that Governor DeSantis signed a bill into law making cultured meat illegal in Florida on the same day the governor signed it into law.
“In a state that prides itself on being a country of freedom and individual liberty, the government is now dictating to consumers what meat they can and cannot purchase,” Good Meat continued in a post on social platform X.
The state of Florida then faced a federal lawsuit from UPSIDE Foods, a company that produces lab-grown meat, challenging Florida's law banning lab-grown meat.
Hill reached out to Good Meat.
