Who’s afraid of lab-grown meat?

FILE — Meat inside of a cooler at a grocery store in Cleveland, Miss. on Jan. 15, 2024. Mississippi became the third state to ban cell-derived meat, a product not for sale in the United States. (Rory Doyle/The New York Times)

WOULD you try a chicken sandwich made from lab-grown meat?

If so, don’t expect to find one in Mississippi anytime soon, because the southern US state has moved to ban so-called cultivated or cell-derived meat, joining a growing list of states seeking to outlaw the emerging food technology.