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“This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers, and consumers,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement following the bill’s passage. “Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”

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Texas joins Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Nebraska in enacting new laws this year; Alabama and Florida did so last year. In March, the Oklahoma House approved a similar bill that did not advance out of the Senate this session.

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[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

cowboy logic

Checks out…

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The most likely reason would be that the people who pay for your vacations and prostitutes own cattle.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There's an argument for labeling so people can make an informed choice; I would actively seek it put for ethical reasons while som might avoid it.

I can only think of bad reasons for an outright ban.

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[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Easiest solution? Spead those ticks that give meat sensitivity around

[-] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago

Its a zero win. I would have eaten this because I'm vegan. Meat eaters would prefer normal meats. Now I go back to just beans. Fuck rather I won't even say what I eat. That way the retards leading this stupid Rednoseance won't ban whatever I plan to eat next. Heck you know what? I'm totally going to eat beef. The most expensive kind of beef and chicken. Yeah! Totally. I'm a vegan and I will go eat the most popular meats out there!

[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Can’t they just call it something else?

Plant protein? Bean Patty? Vegetarian saturated fat delivery system?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Soylent protien? /j

Cultured Beef/pork/chicken etc is my guess at what we will land on

It's what the diamond industry did with success

That being said I'm really curious about Lab grown meats for endangered species that are still being hunted/poached to extinction as a means to fill the demand.

Black market/3 letter agency operations flooding the market to destroy the value of actually killing endangered species would be an interesting path that happens

But we suck so it would probably end up fueling a greater demand because profits and greed

I hate having dangerous ideas that could solve problems but are busy likely to backfire

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're not plant-based. They're actually synthetically growing meat without having to kill an animal. And calling it "Man Meat" sounds wrong.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

total obscurantism

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Isn’t that something only the federal government can regulate? “To regulate Commerce … among the several States”? Then again, who cares about the constitution anymore I guess

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No. States can ban local sales of products that are legal in other states. A common example is that some states ban guns with certain features.

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

yay. let's torture even more animals!

[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

You will only eat what Good Leader likes to eat!

The GOP wants government so small it can swim up your pee stream and live in your penis.

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What company do I invest in to support this?

This will be bigger than legal weed and the idiot states banning it are showing us yet again how fucking stupid they are.

Edit

Upside Foods, but ANIC , AGNMF, and CULTF are the investing groups.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

To cheer Yourselves up, think about how livid Texans are, that they weren't the first.

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