States Ban Lab-Grown Meat: How that limits our freedom and harms animals.

While one has respect for Mr. Stossel's ability to show varying sides of an issue, one disagrees on this.

One wonders about the advisability of lab grown meat  for many reasons aside from the "ick" factor of it. Given that lab grown meat will become the "politically correct/ethical" option, is it really advisable to to have all meat be the same? (i.e. grown from the same animal's genetic material)  One suspects that there may be currently, scientifically undetectable but nutritionally significant differences between animals.  One is reminded of how neighborhoods used to all have the same tree - Elms - planted in the apron. It was lovely, until Dutch elm disease hit. 

Which brings up the another concern. Right now, if a cow has some disease and the meat from that cow makes people sick, it is one cow and while it may affect the processing plant, the plants are cleaned and the cow is tracked down and the probability is that very few were made ill by that one cow. (Or even if it is a whole farm's cows/chickens/etc. the damage is limited.) In a lab facility, how much tainted meat could end up going out before a contaminant is tracked down? What other kinds of contamination are available to occur in lab grown meat? The answer is, we don't know yet. We simply do not know. 

Then one wonders if the cells from lab grown meat are aging and if so at what rate and how does that affect the product produced? 

And one also wonders about what those lab grown cells are being fed. Is that more ecologically and economically sound than livestock - which actually improve the environment if they are correctly managed? 

And then there is the comment on the video by @AllAhabNoMoby

"The problem is not the lab grown meat. The problem is who produces it, who controls is, and those are the same people who make cornflakes and all other prepackaged preproduced foot: Big Industry. Once farmers are dead and gone, Big Industry gets to decide what you eat, what's in it and how it's produced, and you will not have any alternatives."