GOP politicians like Ron DeSantis are trying to ban lab-grown meat, comparing it to bugs and claiming threats to ranches

• Startups have spent years trying to develop meat from cells in a lab instead of slaughtering animals.
• But some Republican state legislators are trying to ban lab-grown meat.
• The bills say that lab-grown meat threatens existing industries, such as cattle ranching.

Republican politicians in some states have a new target: meat raised in a lab instead of via animals.