“Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate...

If this was about knowing you would have been passing labeling laws.

...and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab.

You don't need a law to stop people who already don't want to do something. This isn't for millions of Texans it's for a few rich assholes who want to shut down competition.

It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”

If we're talking about the kind of cowboys that get a corrupt government to back them up as they crush their rivals and bleed the people dry, then sure.

As someone who is morally aware but also morally lazy and eats meat, this gives me hope that cultured meat is actually a threat to the meat industry at this point. Otherwise they'd not be making it illegal.

I 100% would replace all of my meat consumption with cultured meat as long as its reasonably umami/fatty/tastey/varied. Because I know how awful the meat industry is.

Plus it'd even be safer and healthier, especially given the destruction of food safety in this country. Little to zero communicable disease risk.

I unfortunately live in one of these prohibition states though. Just reinforces the idea that I need to get the fuck out of here, this place fucking sucks and the people here can suck shit.

That's the small government party at work

It's about appeasing the rich cattle ranchers, just like their lax environmental and zoning laws for oil and industry. The gulf of Mexico around Texas is extremely polluted.

Free market my fucking ass

criminal penalties

All to protect q few rich cowboys

Meanwhile pedophiles can continue on pedoing, the president can run extortion rackets and commit fraud and tell every lie possible, but that doesn't matter that much I guess

God-given right

Afghanistan-tier cringe.

Republicans are not fit to govern.

The SmAlL gOvErNmEnT GOP, playing favorites and legislating in favor of one of the unhealthiest, ecologically devastating industries on the planet... But their voters will keep voting for the corruption!

Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate

This sounds a lot like anti-vaxxing, where people want to "know" what's in their vaccine. Like it's a conspiracy.

Lab grown meat is a dead meme imo but acting like Texan beef comes from grass fed cows in pastures and not from hellish factory farms where they get fed corn until their liver dies sure sounds stupid

Why won't anyone let the market decide?!? 😭

Ah, the cattle ranchers bribed the legislature into letting them have a bit of ye olde protectionism. Great. /s

Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate

So y'all would be on board with a law to have meat packaging list everything the animals had been injected with, right?

wow, thats not a great move for the environment or the history of humankind. Oh well.

I'm pretty sure this is a huge self own and in a decades time Texans who enjoy knowing what's on their plate will be envious of their interstate bretheren enjoying tastier healthier cuts at a reduced price.

This kind of fucking stupidity is why we're all fucking doomed

“Free market” capitalism.

More freedumb.

Mother fuckers. Can we outlaw these lawmakers from breathing air. Fuck that noise. These fucker don't care what people put in their bodies or they be regulations on the pfsa and shit. How can we overturn this BS and how can I stop Oklahoma from passing this bill?

Cowboy logic

looks like we'll have to replace 🤡 with 🤠 now

It’s plain cowboy logic

Now I'm probably not the intended audience, but if you told me you were doing something with 'cowboy logic', I think I'd be left with a very different impression than they were intending.

Is there any legit reason to be against lab grown meat?