So, I would default to assuming that he has no legal standing to actually be able to maintain this. The comments he made, themselves, are probably sufficient to win any case brought against it. This is not like, say, California and the vaping ban - California has
only gotten away with that because it specifically targeted the flavored vapes. Non-flavored are still available and, as such, the "ban" has withstood scrutiny. Apples to oranges here.
Although in the same breath, maybe that's part of the point.
I mean I dont know how this would really make him dumb, what happens if something in that lab gets into the meat and nobody knows about it?
A lab is not a lab is not a lab. The very idea of cross-contamination, particularly with regards to toxins and/or bacteria, is antithetical to the entire point of the myriad protocols and failsafes in place in places where those are present - which are also not the places you would be growing meat. At scale or otherwise. The cleanroom at my company, which is merely used for de-greasing and re-greasing ball bearings and therefore is on the lower end of the classifications standards, has a higher safety rating than whatever it is you're currently imagining/fearing.
And everything else, as pointed out, already exists in "natural" meat production. There are, again, a ton of processes in place to try to minimize risk factors, and more still for when something gets through. That's what those recalls and warnings for E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria are about - and they're recalling all
potentially affected lots, not just whatever small sampling. Making people sick or killing them is typically not a great way to do business, and while it cuts corners and has a lot of issues the FDA
will fuck you up.
As the governor of a state, whom has access to as many experts as he could ever possibly want, he is just factually dumb. But we already knew that, so, it's also just another day ending in Y.
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