“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.
Soylent protien?
Cultured Beef/pork/chicken etc is my guess at what we will land on
That being said I’m really curious about Lab grown meats for endangered species that are still being hunted/poached to extinction as a means to fill the demand.
Black market/3 letter agency operations flooding the market to destroy the value of actually killing endangered species would be an interesting path that happens
But we suck so it would probably end up fueling a greater demand because profits and greed
I hate having dangerous ideas that could solve problems but are busy likely to backfire
Edit: hit the wrong reply button but leaving it here anyways