“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.”
…
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.
The fact that it’s artificial and has who knows what in it to create the abomination with who knows what health effects it has?
Reduce consumption, production, and our population and keep eating actual fucking meat. We’re going to fuck around and screw ourselves royally because we refused to do the simplest goddamn solutions to the problems we created.