Editor's blog: Save the beef?

Florida first. Alabama second. Who’s next? How many more state governments will ban the manufacture and sale of cultivated meat?

Let’s hope — for the sake of the free-market-loving, animal-based meat industry — it’s zero. An industry fighting a never-ending battle for consumer trust doesn’t need an association with mandates whose effects fit within the definition of fascism.

Bad enough is the hypocrisy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rationalizing his state’s…