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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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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 166 points 2 days ago (19 children)

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.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, the republicans make lots of stupid shit illegal even when it’s not a threat at anything. They love virtue signaling through regulation and love creating laws that are based on conspiracy BS.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They made sharia law illegal in some places, even though there has never been the most remote chance it could come to the USA. They’re panicky fucking snowflakes. All conservatism is driven by fear.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Bathroom bills, chem trail laws. So many dumb examples of people trying to protect themselves from a boogeyman man that conservative media tells you to fear.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

The shit they push is the closest anything in this country has to Sharia. That's the irony of it all.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Well otherwise Medina ohio would absolutely have sharia law /s

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Eh, I'm not nearly so optimistic. They also got terribly worked up over the word "milk" and labeling plant based burger "burger".

It's more about bending over backwards to protect the meat and dairy industry from facing any possible missed revenue opportunity than protecting their actual bottom line, and more importantly about demonstrating their continued utility to the industry.
Kinda like how they'll work hard to prevent gun regulations that no one is actually proposing because the perception of the possibility of a threat is unacceptable.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you leave then it will always remain shit, kind of the only thing keeping me in the states as a whole. Volunteer for parties who oppose Republicans, whoever has the best chance of winning. Go door to door. Talk with people like real people, change their minds.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I don't think it is yet, but they want laws on the book protecting them before they have money to lobby against them. They don't want a fair fight. They want to make sure they have the upper hand before the fight even starts.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Same.

I will never go Vegan but if Lab Grown Meat becomes an option I'll do that.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 75 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't want lab grown meat because they don't know what's in it, but they voted to allow crops to be watered with recycled fracking water

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/texas-approves-use-of-fracking-wastewater-to-irrigate-crops/

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Chicken bathed in chlorine, meat filled to the brink with antibiotics and now also crops containing waste from the petrochemical industry? Glad to know what's on the average plate in Texas, don't mind me enjoying a lab-grown piece of meat for which every component has been accounted for.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

The fuck guys...

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I still really want to get off this ride... i have been over it for a long time.

Fuck stupid people.

Fuck them in their stupid asses!

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 78 points 2 days ago (9 children)

God-given right

Afghanistan-tier cringe.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 days ago

plain cowboy logic

Made me laugh out loud

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 33 points 2 days ago

Ah, the cattle ranchers bribed the legislature into letting them have a bit of ye olde protectionism. Great. /s

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate

So y'all would be on board with a law to have meat packaging list everything the animals had been injected with, right?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

criminal penalties

All to protect q few rich cowboys

Meanwhile pedophiles can continue on pedoing, the president can run extortion rackets and commit fraud and tell every lie possible, but that doesn't matter that much I guess

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago
[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

“Free market” capitalism.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Cowboy logic

looks like we'll have to replace 🤡 with 🤠 now

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

wow, thats not a great move for the environment or the history of humankind. Oh well.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Mother fuckers. Can we outlaw these lawmakers from breathing air. Fuck that noise. These fucker don't care what people put in their bodies or they be regulations on the pfsa and shit. How can we overturn this BS and how can I stop Oklahoma from passing this bill?

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