“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.
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.
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.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.
Same.
I will never go Vegan but if Lab Grown Meat becomes an option I’ll do that.
What’s so dumb is that there is more than enough money sloshing around in the industries associated with the SAD to probably buy into cultured meat and profit anyway…
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.
I get the motivation to try and stay around and make things better but I’m well past that. I’ve been trying to change minds for a while, I can only assume I’m just bad at it.
I also don’t really owe this place my time and energy. If people in this state want to wallow in shit that’s their prerogative but I’m not getting pulled into that shit if I can avoid it. Though it looks like economically I wont be able to avoid it. Moving is expensive and if I move I’ll need a new job and the job market is terrible right now.
“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.
The fuck guys…
Free market my fucking ass
Freedom to fuck over certain groups of people who threaten their power. So brave.
You are free to bribe a politician and influence the market all you want /s
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?
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.
…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.
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.
Well not really. Beef production is not a significant industry in Texas, and its generally known more for sheep than cattle.
But beef is “manly” and so fuckwit dumb failed lawyers, who would squeal at the sight of a shovel, boast about supporting it.
Google AI awnser
Texas leads the United States in cattle production, holding the top spot for beef cows and overall cattle inventory. In 2024, Texas had 4,075,000 beef cows, accounting for 14.62% of the U.S. total, according to the National Beef Wire. Texas also ranks first in the number of all cattle and calves, with 12.2 million head. This represents a significant portion of the U.S. cattle population, with Texas alone accounting for 14% of the total. Here’s a breakdown of Texas meat production by numbers:
Beef Cows: 4,075,000 (January 1, 2025) Cattle & Calves: 12.2 million head Percentage of U.S. Beef Cow Inventory: 14.62% Economic Impact: Cattle are Texas's biggest agricultural commodity, with a market value of $15.5 billion in 2022. Commercial Red Meat Production (2017): 397.3 million pounds Hog Inventory (December 2024): 1,170,000 Goat Inventory (January 1, 2025): 22,000 Sheep & Lamb Inventory (January 1, 2025): 670,000 Broiler Production (Head): 727,500,000Texas’s dominance in cattle production significantly contributes to the state’s economy and the overall U.S. beef supply.
Cowards.
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.
Yes, that’s basically the idea, I guess.
Like with vaccines.
It doesn’t fit in a Tweet though.
A scientist telling you the name of every compound of some food doesnt make you actually know whats in it. Theres a big difference between knowing the name and knowing the thing and how it affects your body.
Well if it really mimics the real thing it will probably be a type 1 carcinogen too.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Are you suggesting that lab-grown meat wouldn’t be controlled by existing laws on what can be in food and will contain some chemical with unknown effects on the human body (outside of those in natural meat)? And that we know all about the effects of whatever contaminants or bio-accumulants may end up in natural meat? I don’t believe either of those. If we went further and listed everything that went into the animal and the culture that grew the meat, for which we would know more about the effect on the human body?
To reiterate, I bet the lab folks could tell you the effect of their product on your body much better than ranchers and meat processing factories (or anyone else) ever could of theirs.
My point is about how people trust new types of food. Knowing the name of the compounds in a food doesnt help in making someone trust it. People trust alimentary habits that are centuries old more than a newly developed method that they have no familiarity with. Im talking about trust on safety regulations rather than the actual regulations.
If only Texans could read (labels) they would know instantly. The end of the quote is the real focus: they want to protect the ranching industry by killing competition from plant based products.
Why won’t anyone let the market decide?!? 😭
It’s about control, they don’t want us deciding anything.
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.
It’s just plain cowboy logic!
“Free market” capitalism.
wow, thats not a great move for the environment or the history of humankind. Oh well.
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
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.
