Unlike plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger, lab-grown meat consists of actual animal tissue, but made without slaughtering animals. Instead, scientists take a sample of animal cells and feed them amino acids, salts, vitamins, and other nutrients until they grow into edible beef, pork, or poultry.

This technology isn’t yet commercially viable. You can’t buy cellular meat at a grocery store. And if you could, a serving might cost you the bulk of your savings.

Nevertheless, self-styled champions of free enterprise in Nebraska, Montana, Indiana, Mississippi,Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Wyoming have all sought to stymy the manufacture and sale of cellular meat within their borders.

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Lab-grown meat faces many scientific and economic hurdles to viability. But it is nevertheless our best hope for eliminating torture from our food system. And the right’s push for prohibiting the technology is fueled by little more than paranoia, greed, and cultural grievance.

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