On September 1, 2025, cultivated meat companies Wild Type and UPSIDE filed suit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Texas, arguing that the state’s ban on cultivated meat is unconstitutional.

As we previously reported , Texas passed SB 261 in June, which banned the “manufacture, processing, possession, distribution, offer for sale, and sale of cell-cultured protein” starting September 1, 2025. Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Alabama, and Florida have passed similar laws.

The complaint argues that the law aims to unfairly promote one industry over another, by “stifl[ing] the growth of the cultivated meat industry to protect Texas’ conventional agricultural industry from innovative competition that is exclusively based outside of Texas.” In a recent pres

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