But it wasn’t only venture capitalists who had started to grow sceptical of cultivated meat. The technology soon became a target of conservatives. The state governments of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska and Texas moved in quick succession to legislate against cultivated meat, passing laws that banned its sale, production, or both. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis made a media event out of signing that state’s law, posing for pictures in front of a blood-stained cutting board piled high with steaks. “Take your fake lab-grown meat elsewhere,” he said.

It's funny how conservatives have bad positions on everything. And even if they had a good idea, it's probably for bad reasons.

There is a widespread feeling in the US that everything is a hoax or a Ponzi scheme

Huh. I don't know if I've seen that stated so directly before.