“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.
Because putting artificial lab meat with who knows what in it is so much better, right?
Jesus fuck, sure, the motives here are typical auth-right follow the money bullshit, but the actual idea to ban lab meat is good. This is just typical nutter vegan “SAVE THE ANIMALS” / pseudoenvironmentalism bullshit that could be fixed by lower consumption, lower production, and lower human population.
Why would anyone assume we won’t know what’s in lab grown meat? If we make it, we will know.
Also, it’s pretty hilarious to watch people suddenly freak out about not knowing what they’re eating. People try foreign foods all the time without knowing what’s in them. I’ve had servers who didn’t know ranch dressing contained mayo. Can you name every ingredient in tiramisu, or bouillabaisse, or penang curry? You wouldn’t think twice about eating those.
Love how you assume these corporations behind it will tell us all the details.
It’s horrible, unnatural in all the worst ways, and possibly dangerous when a much, much simpler solution exists called JUST FUCKING EAT REAL MEAT YOU GODDAMN SHITLORDS.