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Florida’s ban on lab-grown meat challenged as unconstitutional

Attorney: “Florida’s law has nothing to do with protecting health and safety."

Sherman said that Upside Foods and the IJ would also apply for a preliminary injunction that would allow the company to sell cultivated meat in Florida while the legal challenge is still ongoing. The lawsuit was welcomed by the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit focused on advancing alternative proteins and which is serving as a consulting consul in this case. But in the press conference, Upside Foods CEO Uma Valeti argued that cultivated meat should be seen as a complement, not a replacement, to conventional animal agriculture.

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