Scottsdale Lawmaker Provides Key Vote on Lab-Grown Meat Bill
Legislation’s sponsor objects to ‘war on our ranching’
February 25, 2024 | Source: Daily Independent | by Howard Fischer
Arizona may be on the verge of prohibiting the sale of lab-grown meat in local grocery stores based at least in part on the claims by the measure’s sponsor that billionaire Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum “have openly declared war on our ranching.”
On a party-line vote this past week, the state House approved a proposal by first-term Rep. David Marshall to keep those products off the shelves of Arizona stores.
Strictly speaking, his HB 2121 would not make these products that are slowly becoming available totally off limits to Arizonans. The Snowflake Republican said residents could still buy them – but from other states, meaning traveling there in person or ordering them in the mail.
But forget about obtaining them locally.
What’s behind that “war” on ranching by others, he said, are environmental claims.