I mean, I am all in for labeling, but banning it? Is that what's happening? why would anyone do that
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Protectionism for meat companies is why.
If the meat companies had any sense, they'd be pushing for and funding it. That much moneyh and not owning the competition is just flat out stupid.
Exactly, they would profit more from planting whatever crop is needed to supply raw materials to the lab-grown facility, than the efficiency loss of raising cattle for protien
That's the thing. It's too late for them to get in on the real ground floor. The tech is already basically here with increasingly well established companies. Now the cheapest best optionfor the old meat companies to stay competitive is to try to block the new competition. Of course that method won't hold up long term but we all know shareholders only care about next quarter.
Freedom.
Free market my fucking ass
You are free to bribe a politician and influence the market all you want /s
Freedom to fuck over certain groups of people who threaten their power. So brave.
Regulatory capture in action
Pretty sure beans are 1000% a bigger threat to ranchers.
Call it something else, rebrand it. We could say that if it didnt come from an animal, its not meat, its just a protein cake or a red pudding, or something. Could it avoid the ban this way?
They didnt ban any vegan protein source, they banned the exact one that tries to make you feel like youre eating beef. The name "Lab-grown meat" tells those ranchers that it wants to replace them, its unnecessarily aggressive, which innevitably creates a reaction.
It's like changing "lab-grown butter" to margarine. Lol, can't stop people from whipping oil.
Why won't anyone let the market decide?!? 😭
It's about control, they don't want us deciding anything.
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!
Republicans are not fit to govern.
The only place conservatives fit is in a box six feet under ground.
Feels kinda unconstitutional to me. They could say you can't sell it for consumption, but not sell it at all seems like an overstep.
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
More freedumb.
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.
If only Texans could read (labels) they would know instantly. The end of the quote is the real focus: they want to protect the ranching industry by killing competition from plant based products.
I bet the lab folks could tell you what's in their product much better than ranchers and meat processing factories ever could. A lot of science goes into it though and some people seem to be allergic to that, at least based on the sorts of claims they make.
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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!
Easiest solution? Spread those ticks that give meat sensitivity around
Where? Barely two blades of grass still standing in this state that haven't been paved over.
We need to be funding this stuff.
Move all meat subsidies into lab-grown meat to save animals and still have meat. Easy.
Everybody trying to act like it's bad is lying and likes animals getting hurt.
It's just plain cowboy logic!
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.
I'm pretty sure this is a huge self own
Congratulations, you understand every Texas legislative session since Ann Richards was governor.
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yay. let's torture even more animals!
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.
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Upside Foods, but ANIC , AGNMF, and CULTF are the investing groups.
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.
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“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.
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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.
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