/>i- Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed an executive order at the end of August restricting sales of cultivated meat and said he will press state lawmakers to make Nebraska the third state to ban sale of the food products. Gorvernor Pillen stated at a press conference that the order is the start of a “full blown attack on lab-grown meat and fake meat.”
- The order bars Nebraska state agencies from buying cultivated meat and requires businesses to contract with the state to attest that they will not discriminate against “natural-meat producers” in favor of cultivated meat producers. Additionally, Governor Pillen directed the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to develop regulations to make sure any “lab-grown meat products” sold in stores are properly labeled and are not marketed next to natural meat on the same shelves. A draft hearing on those regulations has been scheduled for October 8, 2024.
- As we have previously reported, Florida and Alabama have also enacted laws to completely ban the sale of cultivated meat products, adopting frameworks that lay out stiff financial penalties and possible jail time for anyone found in violation. Iowa approved a law that mandates specific labeling requirements for cultivated meat and bars the sale of such products in public schools and food assistance programs. Texas has also adopted an aggressive labeling law for cultivated meat products and lawmakers in several other states, including Arizona and Tennessee, have proposed complete bans.
Nebraska Executive Order Restricts Sales of Cultivated Meat in State
Friday, October 4, 2024
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