“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.

  • ryper@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    edit-2
    12 hours ago

    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?

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      11 hours ago

      I think they missed a word. We have a God-given right to know what’s allowed on our plates here in Texas. They won’t feed us, but they’ll sure as shit knock food out from our hands if it affects their bottom line.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      …he’s right over here mr ICE officer, sir. I cant smell any patriotism on him and he’s threatening the food supply. Probably a member of antifa and peta too.