Texas and several other states have, in fact, enacted bans similar to Florida’s on cultivated (lab-grown) meat.

• Florida (trigger state in the quote): SB 1084 created Fla. Stat. §500.452, making it unlawful to “manufacture for sale, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute cultivated meat” in the state, with criminal penalties. (leg.state.fl.us)
• Alabama: Act 2024‑252 makes it illegal in Alabama to manufacture, sell, or distribute food products produced from cultured animal cells, effective October 1, 2024. (alabamaretail.org)
• Mississippi: HB 1006, passed in March 2025, prohibits anyone from manufacturing, selling, holding for sale, offering for sale, or distributing any cultivated food product in the state, effective July 1, 2025. (food-safety.com)
• Indiana: HB 1425 (signed May 6, 2025) imposes a two‑year moratorium, from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, on the sale, offer for sale, or manufacture of cultivated meat products in Indiana. (aglaw.psu.edu)
• Montana: HB 401, signed May 1, 2025, bans the sale, distribution, and manufacture of “cell‑cultured edible products,” with criminal penalties and license consequences starting October 1, 2025. (dailyintakeblog.com)
• Nebraska: LB 246 (approved May 20, 2025) amends the Nebraska Pure Food Act so that cultivated‑protein food products are treated as adulterated food; it makes their manufacture, production, import, distribution, promotion, display, offer for sale, attempt to sell, or sale unlawful statewide. (nationalaglawcenter.org)
• Texas (explicitly named in the prediction): SB 261, signed by Governor Greg Abbott on June 20, 2025, prohibits the manufacture, processing, possession, distribution, offer for sale, and sale of “cell‑cultured protein” in Texas, effective September 1, 2025. (capitol.texas.gov)

A legal and policy survey from agricultural law and food‑law analysts similarly lists Texas alongside Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Nebraska as states that have enacted bans or moratoria on cultivated meat products. (aglaw.psu.edu)

Given that Texas implemented a ban and multiple other U.S. states subsequently enacted laws barring the manufacture and/or sale of cultivated meat, Friedberg’s prediction that Florida’s move would be followed by Texas and “many other states” adopting similar bans has come true.