Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday banning lab-grown meat in the state, claiming it is being pushed for “authoritarian goals.”

The technology to produce lab-grown meat is still in development, though two companies recently received approval to sell lab-grown chicken.

Lab-grown meat usually begins with a sample from animal cells that is fed with essential ingredients like vitamins and amino acids to produce meat.

Florida isn’t the only state to try to ban the production and sale of meat grown in a lab, with Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee also attempting to ban the product.

DeSantis said “global elites” are pushing lab-grown meat and said the bill was an effort to “save our beef.”

Advocates of lab-grown meat hope that process will be refined to be more climate-friendly than regular meat, using less land and water to produce. Animal agriculture accounts for 15% to 19.6% of emissions that contribute to climate change and is the leading cause of deforestation, according to Our World in Data.