Nebraska, the latest state to oppose cultured meat in the US

A recent executive order from Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Aug. 30 set strict guidelines on what state agencies and contractors can do to obtain the lab-grown product. The governor said he ordered the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to begin a rulemaking process to make sure all lab-grown meat products sold in stores are “properly labeled and not marketed alongside natural meat on the same shelves.” “Nebraska farmers and ranchers, like those here today, are committed to producing the world’s best food products,” Pillen said. “We feed the world and save the planet more effectively and efficiently than anyone else and I will defend those practices until my dying breath.” Sherry Vinton, director of the NDA, said a public hearing will be scheduled for Oct. 8 on the draft regulations. “Nebraska consumers want to know and deserve to know that what they are buying is safe, healthy beef and not a lab-grown product,” Vinton said. Pillen signed the order with a group of Oak Barn Beef ...