South Dakota keeps moratorium, not ban, on ‘fake meat’; sustains governor’s veto
State lawmakers also fall short of overriding Rhoden’s objection to home-care background checks, licensing regulations
A future where lab-grown meat replaces natural beef, pork and chicken in the diets of South Dakotans remains a threat.
And bad actors masquerading as caretakers are still able to operate where the light of government regulators does not reach.
That’s the takeaway some state lawmakers on the losing side of the Veto Day scorecard would have South Dakotans believe after the Legislature stood down on a pair of measures that’d been sent to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk earlier this winter.
