Ah, the 'global elite,' who they also call 'globalists.' And who are they talking about?

The term is now frequently used as a pejorative by far-right movements and conspiracy theorists, as in the New World Order conspiracy theory;[3] it is associated with antisemitism, as antisemites frequently appropriate the term globalist to refer to Jews.[3][4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism

I can't wait for lab grown meat to become widely available (in my state at least). I think it's really cool. Being able to eat real meat without harming animals sounds so futuristic. It's one piece of future technology that I can actually get behind.

Conservative "Free Market Values" at play

Do his supporters really believe hes an “every man” like them, and not literally one of the “global elite”?

"To fight authoritarianism, the government is going to restrict your dietary choices!"

• Don Insantis

If you don't want it, don't buy it, problem solved!

bUt MuH fReEdOmS!?

The only thing that can stop a bad meat maker is a good meat maker?!

For your convenience:

https://www.goodmeat.co/

The company who's product they are banning.

Along the same vein, there was another company recently who made plant based blue cheese that was disqualified from a blue cheese contest after they were going to take first.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/29/after-a-vegan-blue-cheese-won-the-good-food-award-panicked-dairy-cheese-makers-forced-the-foundation-to-disqualify-it.html

I didn't realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!

"Florida is fighting back against the global elite's plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs," Mr DeSantis said in a statement.

"Force the world" by... Having it as an option.

The party of small government and the free market everybody!

You are part of the elite you stupid stupid fuck

I want lab grown steaks so bad. Why are these 'Capitalist' so against the free market?

What a cool party of freedom and personal responsibility

So, if the 'global elite' are not the 1%, and as seen from this whole Gaza thing, they are not 'the jews' (which is what I though Republicans were always coyly referring to when they used that term), who the heck do the Republicans think the 'Global Elite' are?

Florida seems to ban something every week.

It's not enough to be cast aside for veganism now I can't even have a choice of what to eat? WTF!

Maybe? I mean the big criticism is that it's just highly processed food at the end of the day and that the process of production is what is the issue. This is of course an argument made by what you may call food purists, who'd rather you spend money on a proper blender than rely on big corporations to form Scop 2.0.

But that's not what Ronnie boy is thinking about. Oh no. He's thinking about "owning the libs", "showing them what for", and what kind of cretinous, disingenuous bastard he can be. He would gladly invest in something like Scop 2.0 if it made a lot of money, AND performatively ban it in his state if it vaguely had an LGBTQ+ tinge to it.

This is a careful reminder that some states banned solar panels out of spite... because people elect absolute troglodytes to represent them, and then have the balls to talk about "free markets".

GTFO here with your fake self. In fact, take the whole republican party with you.

Sawed-off, short-sighted fascist strikes again.

Something about "global elite" just sounds antisemitic to me... is this the new new "international Jewry?"

Could be I just have a hair trigger response these days, though

For someone's who's a big capitalist, it seems like he's never heard of a free market economy. Just let the market decide which meat is best. Or better yet, let the people!

This is not an endorsement of our late-stage capitalist economy, rather a critic of Ronny's hypocrisy.

“global elite”

That's weird, all my dogs just started barking.

At this point, this guy is a just a troll. This loser needs to go.

Who else than a large corp with sufficient funding can develop and market lab-grown meat anyway? Of course this kind of stuff will come from a large corp at first. Is he willing to launch a state-owned lab to fund it publicly? Yeah, I didn't think so.

It's not like people will jump at the opportunity to buy some backyard-shed-grown meat today, as appetizing that might sound.

Really tackling the major problems first there. As we all know I've grown meat is everywhere.

Ron is one of those people who knows how bad he is, but it's up to the useful of idiots of Florida to figure it out for themselves.

Not everyone in Florida is a moron, far from it. But enough of them are bad enough that it's scary watching them throw their lives away because they let ideas they don't even like live rent free in their heads.

In this upside down world, the Jews standing together with oppressed people protesting apartheid and genocide are called antisemites by the same people who use every antisemitic trope in the books.

“They’re gonna take your burgers away!” Is the new rallying cry of the weird Right.

He's a staunch free market Republican. Dude is seriously just throwing out dog whistle BS to conspiracy theorists. What is wrong with eating bugs? Does the little pansy give them icky?

I AM THE GLOBAL ELITE.
KNEEL BEFORE MY VEGAN MIGHT!
ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR.

the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”.

Real "Spiderman pointing at Spiderman" energy here.