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That's the small government party at work
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Keep an eye on the Seattle election. If the progressive wins the race there will be a lot of gearing up for a huge influx of people. The people are expected either way but the progressive want to do something to house them and the conservatives want it all to be a surprise.
My family is interested in going international however.
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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.
Texans have a God-given right
Theocracy confirmed.
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/
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.
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Free market my fucking ass
Freedom to fuck over certain groups of people who threaten their power. So brave.
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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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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
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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Cowards.
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
Ah, the cattle ranchers bribed the legislature into letting them have a bit of ye olde protectionism. Great. /s
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.
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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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.
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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!
“Free market” capitalism.
I mean, I am all in for labeling, but banning it? Is that what's happening? why would anyone do that
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.
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wow, thats not a great move for the environment or the history of humankind. Oh well.
It’s plain cowboy logic
Now I'm probably not the intended audience, but if you told me you were doing something with 'cowboy logic', I think I'd be left with a very different impression than they were intending.
My wife grew up on a ranch. She was very offended when we were in the UK and she realized the term 'cowboy' referred to incompetent trades people who consistently did bad jobs. It made me laugh though.
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.
Is there any legit reason to be against lab grown meat?
The most likely reason would be that the people who pay for your vacations and prostitutes own cattle.
There's an argument for labeling so people can make an informed choice; I would actively seek it put for ethical reasons while som might avoid it.
I can only think of bad reasons for an outright ban.
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More freedumb.
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.
Edit
Upside Foods, but ANIC , AGNMF, and CULTF are the investing groups.
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