“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.

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    6 hours ago

    “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.