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HERE IS THE LATEST ON STATES' LEGISLATION OF CULTIVATE MEATS FROM NAT'L AG LAW CENTER
May 9, 2025
Source: National Agricultural Law Center
Indiana has enacted a proposal that creates labeling standards for cultivated meat products, and bans the manufacture, offering for sale, and selling of cultivated meat products in the state for the time period of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. After that date, the labeling standards will require cultivated meat products to bear the phrase "this is an imitation meat product."
Additionally, Montana became the 5th state to ban the manufacturing for sale, selling, offering for sale, and distribution of cultivated meat when its governor signed HB401 into law.
Meanwhile, both chambers of Oklahoma's legislature have passed HB1126, a bill that expands Oklahoma's current alternative protein labeling laws. Specifically, HB1126 requires that cultivated protein food products, insect-protein food products, and plant-protein food products bearing an "identifying" meat term must also bear a "qualifying" term that makes clear to a reasonable purchaser that the food is not derived from harvested livestock. HB1126 also creates storage requirements for food establishments that offer alternative proteins. Further, SB96 has passed both Oklahoma's House and Senate. This bill would create provisions extending Oklahoma's Meat Consumer Protection Act to cell-cultured and insect-protein products.
For a more detailed update on state alternative meat proposals, click here to read an article from NALC partner Southern Ag Today "A Steak by Any Other Name: How States Are Shaping the Future of Cultivated Meat."
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