1/21/26 page A1: Arizona anti-lab meat bill.
Republicans claimed to be laissez-faire regarding business matters. No more. Rep. Lupe Diaz is pushing a bill to eliminate consumer choice by not allowing sale of lab-grown meat in Arizona. He asks, “…what’s the issue with cattle?” Obvious answer, methane. Land use and soil pollution, also.
Diaz stated he is supporting cattlemen, implicitly not consumers.
A cattle ranch is an open air "lab" with less environmental control than an environmentally controlled facility that produces meat by cellular division. Both the ranch and facility use cellular division to effectively create virtually the same product. Reiterating, a facility is a cleaner environment.
Rep. Quang Nguyen is proposing to provide information to consumers, in a laissez-faire manner. He’s not picking winners and losers.
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I’ll buy lab-grown meat, if competitively priced, with preferred qualities.
James Abels
Midtown
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