States’ Rights and Hypocrisy Texas has become the seventh state to prohibit food products cultured from animal cells. Another half dozen states are considering legislative restrictions on these products, often at the behest of the agriculture sector. Bloomberg produced the map below on state level efforts. With a similar goal of restricting innovation, Republicans who typically praise deregulation as an economic benefit removed from the Big Beautiful Bill a prohibition against states initiating their own regulation of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, some of these same politicians argue California has no right to regulate animal welfare standards on products imported from other states. And they encouraged the recent Trump Administr...