🌎 Alt proteins at 10% reduce emissions = grounding every plane on the planet.

20% = a 100% global shift to EVs.

These numbers are based on very conservative assumptions.

APs also significantly decrease biodiversity loss, hunger + malnutrition, AMR, and pandemic risk.

See: tinyurl.com/mtucz6zh

Takeaway: Bans are bad for free markets, consumer choice, innovation, and small business. Plus, they put the United States at a strategic disadvantage against other countries on food and water security and global economic competitiveness. #end

Center for Strategic & International Studies agrees: Says cultivated meat industry critical for food security, to “establish a competitive economic advantage across future global food markets,” and to “mitigate global threats and enhance U.S. strategic competitiveness": tinyurl.com/252m2rek 15/x

Rep Andrew Garbarino, Rep Dan Newhouse, and 9 other Republican MOC to directors of Homeland Security and National Intelligence: Stress the importance of U.S. leadership on agricultural biotech, including cultivated meat, to both domestic and global food security. Link: tinyurl.com/2kfzba32 14/x

The Dispatch points out that if the U.S. cripples its cultivated meat industry, that “won’t stop global competitors like China from doing so, and so jobs and dollars will flow there instead.” Link: tinyurl.com/4xe29c3b 13/x

Libertarian legal powerhouse the Institute for Justice took action: They sued the state of Florida. Says IJ senior attorney Paul Sherman: “This law is … about stifling innovation and protecting entrenched interests at the expense of consumer choice.” Link: tinyurl.com/yhaf3xxc 12/x

The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg says the bans are “bad for the economy [and] hypocritical for supporters of free enterprise..” Link: tinyurl.com/2mzr6e95 11/x

Governments should not play “food police,” says the Heritage Foundation about far less stringent labeling regulations: Free markets should reign “without the government trying to steer consumers to buy one product over another.” Link: tinyurl.com/yc7m3puz 10/x