U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court

Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It's plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives." But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon - and is suing Texas over its ban on cell-cultivated meat, the Austin Chronicle reported this week. The compa...