This is overreach and should be struck down. Even products that present real health risks (cigarettes, alcohol) cannot be banned so it's hard to see how lab grown meat being banned stands up.
Yeh, came here to say I don't see how this survives a court challenge.
What's the legal basis for the law? Virtue Signaling To Your Base is not a reason any rational jurist is going to accept for outlawing some private company growing meat in a lab and selling it to private citizens on the free market.
What's there to challenge? Conservative judges believe that (red) states have the right to ban any and all behavior that conservatives don't like.
The sudden realization by liberals that government is not allowed to regulate food of all things appears quite ridiculous, LOL
Banning random, irrelevant stuff purely because conservative commentators don't like it isn't a regulation I respect. He even admitted in his stupid Twitter public statement that this is being done because he thinks Jews are going to make him eat bugs.
You don't have to respect it and neither do I, you still have to craft an argument for why its unconstitutional.
"Craft an argument for why it's unconstitutional" lmao. That is not how the law works. Other way around.
Florida's lawyers will now get to waste time and taxpayer money showing in court what government interest they think is served by banning this, only to be slapped down immediately.
It's one thing to ban cigarettes. It's another thing to ban FDA approved food products.
That is in fact how the law works.
Federal laws have to be tied to a specific enumerated power in order to be Constitutional. State laws do not, as the states have general police powers (aside from certain things specifically prohibited of the states in the Constitution). So the party challenging the law would indeed bear the burden of arguing that the law is unconstitutional, not the other way around.
What I think you’re getting at is “rational basis review,” meaning a law does have to be rationally related to some government interest. But that’s an
extremely low bar to clear. The reason doesn’t have to be a very
good reason.
