Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat

Mississippi house Among the actors only passed a draft law prohibiting cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third country that prohibits meat that grows in ponds of small samples of animal cells.

The Mississippi Bill will make illegal to make, sell or distribute any person to the state. Violation of the law will be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of no more than $ 500 and/or up to three months in the province’s prison. Similar laws were issued last year in Florida and Alabama, also carrying possible prison periods or fines of $ 500.

The draft law is now awaiting the signing of the ruler Tate Reeves and will become a law unless he chooses the veto against the bill. The Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner, Andy Gibson, criticized the implanted meat industry, and support for the 2019 bill that prevented the products of transplanted meat as meat in the state. In 2024, he posted a post on his website praising the ban on meat planted in Florida and Alabama. “I want the meat slices to come from cows meat, not Pitti from a laboratory,” he wrote.

“This has a very strong feeling of political theater,” said Suzy Gover, CEO of the Association of Meat, Poultry and Seafood, a commercial group that represents the implanted meat industry. She says that the actual effect of the law on any of these states will be minimal, because cultivated meat was not available for sale in any of them.

Republican actors Bill Begut and Leicester Carpenter submitted the Mississippi Bill in January 2025. Both councils passed without one vote in the opposition. But similar legislation in other states had a lower smooth path. The Wyoming draft law was voted, which would have prohibited meat cultivated in its third reading in the Senate in February, while a similar bill in South Dakota failed to achieve this through the Senate vote in February.

“I was surprised, but I encouraged the results in those countries,” says Gerbar. In Wyoming, some members of the Senate argued over the provisions of packaging better instead of a complete ban on cultivated meat, while in South Dakota, some legislators opposed the ban, on the pretext that it would prevent free trade.

Other states are studying legislation similar to those that have already been approved in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. A draft law presented in Georgia in January will make illegal to sell cultivated meat. In Nebraska, a draft law prohibiting meat planted in the state was submitted at the request of Governor Jim Bellin in January.

Florida is currently prohibited in the case of the court submitted by the California Al Soudia Food Company and the Justice Institute, a non -profit law firm. The issue argues that the ban on Florida violates two separate parts of the United States constitution, which cover the trade between states and the relationship between federal and state law. In October, a federal judge denied the request for bi -up to issue a preliminary court order that would stop the Florida ban on planted meat.

Fixed punctuation of the state’s ban with a shrinkage in the enthusiasm of the investor of transplanted meat. Only 226 million dollars were invested in startups planted in 2023, as it decreased significantly from 922 million dollars in 2022. In early 2024, bullish foods were closed, while California -based Scififoods closed completely later that year.

But there are some signs that this industry moves these opposite winds. On March 8, Mission Barns, which is based in San Francisco, announced that the Food and Drug Administration had no other questions about the safety of its product implanted in pork fat products, a big step towards selling the product in the United States. Only two other companies, which are upward foods and eating, received a similar letter from the Food and Drug Administration. Mission Barns now needs approval from the US Department of Agriculture to launch it in the United States.