Witnesses split over HB 10 provisions on cultivated meat labeling and public procurement

The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee heard in-person testimony for and against provisions of substitute amended House Bill 10 that address food labeling and procurement of novel products such as cultivated (cell-cultured) meat.

Rachel Kilgore, an attorney and New Albany resident testifying as an opponent, urged the committee to reject the bill "in its entirety as it is written with the amendments accepted today." Kilgore told the committee she was concerned the bill's "origin . . . would trace back to feelings and speculation, as well as statistics with no citations," and said the bill's language contained grammatical ambiguities. She argued the bill places burdens on parties other than those it purports to protect and questioned the practical relevance of some provisions: "But since when are they…