We hear how Florida is on its way to banning and criminalizing alternative meat. We introduce you to the NextGen Cattle Company. We have market reports, news updates, bull sale updates, markets, hay auctions and lots more on this all new episode of The Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.
EPISODE 177 DETAILS
Florida is on its way to banning and criminalizing alternative meat production. We have updates of how other states like Texas and Tennessee are pushing for the same legislation.
Beefmaster, Charolais and NextGen Angus X bulls at NextGen Cattle Company. We go behind the scenes with one of the founders to find out more of this unique seedstock offering. Plus we have news and market information along with the latest hay and cattle auction results.
NEXTGEN CATTLE COMPANY
The NextGen Story
The creation of NextGen Cattle Co. began as a vision for founders and cousins Derek Thompson, Damon Thompson and Brad Lindstrom. Throughout their professional careers they built reputations on relationships and service and they bring those experiences and commitments with them to the seedstock industry.
The NextGen Traditional Values
The commercial cattleman represents some of the oldest and most traditional values of integrity, trust, passion and vision. The passion to start a seedstock operation, with the goal to serve the commercial cattleman, was a natural fit for Nextgen Cattle Co. NextGen Cattle Co owns and operates businesses in every segment of the beef industry. NextGen Cattle Co. Ranch, NextGen at Riverbend, and NextGen at Allen.
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COW COUNTRY NEWS
Florida Is On It’s Way To Banning & Criminalizing Alternative Meat
Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to keep lab-grown meat out of Florida.
Over the last several months, Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban — and criminalize — the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state, via the introduction of two bills, House Bill 1071 and Senate Bill 1084. On February 6, the state’s House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1084, which now sits on DeSantis’ desk awaiting a signature. And if his previous comments are any indication, he will be pulling out his pen soon.
“I know the Legislature is doing a bill to try to protect our meat,” DeSantis said in February while visiting the South Florida State College Hardee Campus, “You need meat, and we’re going to have meat in Florida.” DeSantis added, “We’re not going to have fake meat. That doesn’t work.”
Cell-cultivated meat, to be clear, differs from traditional veggie burgers and meat alternatives like Impossible Burgers. As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) defines, Cell-cultivated meat “is developed in a lab, grown from a sample of animal cells that does not require the slaughter of animals.” The development of cell-cultivated meat, the CRS explained, happens in five steps: the biopsy of animal cells, cell banking, cell growth, harvesting, and food processing. It’s an industry that has heavy oversight in the U.S. by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
As the CRS noted, there are about 150 companies around the world involved in the cell-cultivated meat industry, 43 of which are based in the U.S. Of those 43, just two companies, Good Meat and Upside Food, have FDA approval in the U.S. While it’s still a relatively small industry, it’s one with major financial backing. According to the CRS, some $3 billion has been invested in its growth via private capital, and an additional $5 million has been issued via the National Science Foundation in research grants, along with an additional $12 million in grants by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Florida, however, isn’t alone in its pursuit to block the production and sale of this type of meat. As Fast Company reported, Tennessee is considering a similar bill that would impose a $1 million fine for selling cultivated meat. Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony. This means that if you’re caught selling cell-cultivated meat there, you could wind up in prison for up to 10 years. And, as Food Dive reported, Texas also implemented legislation around how cultivated meat can be labeled and marketed. More from this article can be found HERE.
Ranchers Urge BLM To Incorporate Latest Science In New Sage Grouse Plans
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) responded to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) release of the updated greater sage grouse management plans. These plans will shape public land use across 10 different states and tens of millions of Western acres. After completing revisions to the plans in 2015 and again in 2019, the agency is currently amending 77 separate land use plans across the West, and could potentially designate millions of acres as new Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs). Despite this incredibly expansive scope, the BLM provided only 90 days to comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and only 60 days to comment on proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern.
Here is the background. The sage grouse habitat has been declining across the West due to a variety of factors including catastrophic wildfires, urban development, and the spread of invasive grasses. As a result, more than half of the remaining prime sage grouse habitat exists on BLM acres. The pressures on sage grouse habitat vary from state to state, from ecosystem to ecosystem, and sometimes from county to county. One-size-fits-all conservation strategies are ineffective for this species. Habitat management must be tailored to local needs in order to achieve the best results for the bird. The expertise of local stakeholders, like federal grazing permittees, will be crucial for conserving the species.
The Public Lands Council President and Colorado federal grazing permittee, Mark Roeber said years of research, including a very recent and comprehensive 10-year study, support the fact that managed livestock grazing is compatible and can actually benefit the bird. He went on to say the agency must look at the science, and leverage livestock grazing as a tool for strengthening the sagebrush steppe, preventing wildfire, and conserving this iconic species.”
For Additional details check out the full article HERE
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