Lab-grown meat isn’t being sold in Texas grocery stores or featured on most restaurant menus. In July, Austin sushi restaurant Otoko began putting Wildtype’s cultivated salmon on its menu, making it the first and only restaurant in Texas to sell a lab-grown product.
Despite the lack of widespread sales of lab-grown meat, also called cell cultivated meat or cultured meat, lawmakers in June passed a law to ban its sale in Texas for the next two years, starting Sept. 1.
Lawmakers approved the ban because of concerns that the cultured meat industry could disrupt traditional livestock markets and family farms, as well as concerns about product labelling…