Party of small government my fucking ass. Also, isn't the free market allowed to produce any product and compete for consumer spending? Isn't that capitalism?
Desantis is literally pushing these laws and screaming woke while pocketing millions of dollars of "donations" from the large cattle ranching companies throughout the state. Hell, he started attacking Disney once they stopped paying him millions in bribes too. Disney's disagreement with the dont say gay bill was the perfect excuse
It's all bad faith arguments. They just use it as a weapon to get their way. Although, this reeks of corporate regulatory capture.
Small government means making it ILLEGAL to be Vegan or Vegetarian!
Almost like "small government" was just a bullshit excuse to cut social services and avoid regulating against the unchecked greed and exploitation of wealthy executives, not something they genuinely believed.
Small minded government.
Stand your ground beef, and the cattle doctrine, are important concepts in the south.
They want to force out everyone to the left of Matt gaetz so they never have to worry about pesky liberal voters ever again. If they could round up every registered Democrat and drop them off in California or new York, they fucking would.
We'll, I guess that means lab-grown meat is showing promise! I look forward to seeing it in stores.
I'm so fucking sick of the Florida government. House insurance is astronomical, but they're worried about lab-grown meat, teachers saying gay, and books.
Think of them a bit like a friend with a drug problem. They gotta ride this train all the way to the bottom before there will be any interest in change.
Man, for a party that talks about freedoms, they sure love taking them away. As long as their followers still have gun rights, fuck everything else.
No,, they're very much not allowed to fuck everything else. They are allowed to fuck one thing in very specific circumstances (age not being one of them)
Aaaahhh the political party of not wanting to interfere in people's lives.
Unless you eat meat from a source that might change an industry and cause a select few individuals to be slightly less rich
Unless you masturbate and waste gods seed
Unless you love the wrong person
Unless you want to vote for the wrong person
Unless you believe in the wrong or (gasp) no god at all!
Unless you're the wrong skin color, how dare you!
Unless you have the wrong genitals
Unless you have the wrong wrong genitals
Unless...
Politics is bout ideology, value and belief. But here, it's about making decisions by dogmatism and cult. This is a whole different level.
Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony.
What in the fuck is going on in these guys heads. I get being beholden to the cattle industry but this shit is beyond that
It's about pushing all the people who live there and disagree with the Republican agenda.
So far Florida seems to be a good shooter when it comes to its own foot. Make Diznee illegal, abortion illegal, abortion pill, tofu meat. What's next? Smoothies?
Let's make an allegory to porn and prostitution that George Carlin made some years back... Selling is legal, fucking is legal, do why can't selling fucking also be legal?
Banana is legal, orange is legal, so why can't a smoothie be legal? The answer is "Florida!"
Florida is taking away the freedom of any person to eat whatever they want? Is anyone surprised?
I wanna get one of those cigarette boats and smuggle abortion pills and alternative meat into Florida and trans people out.
It'll be black with a red racing stripe and a spoiler like the A Team van and I'll name it the Baracus.
Always with the lame anecdotal argument that sounds like it came from a drunk idiot.
I love how humans try their hardest to cut down on the amount of destruction they cause only for other humans to villainize and tear them down at every turn.
Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois, the Republican who introduced a similar bill, HB 1071, told Politico that his major motivation is protecting the cattle industry. “Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida,” Sirois stated, adding, "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have.”
I don't agree with him on the policy, but I'll give him this: that's more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I've seen.
Usually there's something about how it's potentially deadly or maybe waving around "concerns" about whether there'd be food security in a global famine or something.
It's also a very stupid take. If that's what he thinks, then he should finance farms that transition from growing animals to growing whatever is needed in this more modern and civilised world, like high protein legumes and that sort of stuff used in producing new generation foods.
He also thinks it's an affront to nature and creation that could lead to cloning, so yeah..
Medicine is too woke for Florida. So is meat, so are books.
Anyone have any predictions?
I feel like seat belts are going to be too woke soon for Florida.
Driving licenses altogether might be too woke.
Salads? Too woke for Florida
I feel like they should probably get rid of the seatbelt law… let the problem sort itself out,
This is great! This'll lower prices for everyone else.
They're actually setting up the board with some big criminal penalties for selling it. It'll have a cross state freezing effect on the vendors as a whole and transportation through states. They're going full drug war on it. I didn't expect their need for cattle farmer votes to be so acute.
It's good to see Florida really taking the lead on tackling the issues that matter.
I don't care what Rick Desantis says. It's my right as an American to enjoy Soylent Green.
I've been watching the tech to make actual meat from cell lines emerge with some optimism- it promises to make it possible for us to have meat in our diets without all the greenhouse gases and feedlots and the like- but it also threatens to consolidate the protein industry into even fewer corporate hands if it's not well-regulated.
The meat industry is honestly pretty awful (environmentally, politically, ethically, etc.) and I find myself rooting for the plucky young frankenmonsters that might come along and knock them down even though I'm pretty sure they'll be worse if they're not well regulated from the start.
I like meat too, but this is silly. Just had roast chicken yesterday. I also have a freezer with two door shelves lined with tubes of Impossible Sausage. It's a pretty damn good "sausage", and without those hard/random bits of gristle you'll encounter with the real thing. Think there's some Quorn chicken nuggets in there too. Just buy as you like.
And soy was a lovely mitigator for menopausal hot flashes. Dosed myself with soy on the daily for those weeks, no flashes (awful random surges of heat, head to toes, such that you sweat into your hair, behind your knees, awful.) Miss a day, hot flashes. Although, when you think on it, this fits with Florida, really. Fuck women's health, amiright?
They need to lose in court again, I guess. Sorry taxpayers, that's 20 million right off the top.
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