Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meats and House & Senate Farm Bureau Overviews
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning the sale or production of lab-grown meat in the state.
He says Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish.
Florida Senate Bill 1084 enacts a wide-ranging ban on cultivated meat, making it illegal “for any person to manufacture, sell, hold, or distribute cultivated meat in Florida.
**Just hours after House Ag Committee Chair GT Thompson released his farm bill overview, Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow released the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act that contains more than 100 bipartisan bills designed to put the farm bill back on track.
Stabenow says it’s a serious proposal reflecting bipartisan priorities to keep farmers farming, families fed, and rural communities strong.
She says farmers, families, and rural communities cannot wait any longer for the 2024 Farm Bill.
**CropLife America commissioned the University of Arkansas to conduct a three-year assessment that evaluates the environmental benefits and impacts of pesticide use on corn, cotton, and soybeans.
The study examined crop productivity with and without pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides).
The key results show without pesticides, corn, cotton, and soybeans yields would drop up to 70%, underscoring the indispensable role of pesticides in agriculture.
