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.

“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.

God-given right

Afghanistan-tier cringe.

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/

Free market my fucking ass

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.

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.

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?

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

yay. let's torture even more animals!

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.

Republicans are not fit to govern.

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!

Why won't anyone let the market decide?!? 😭

“Free market” capitalism.

I mean, I am all in for labeling, but banning it? Is that what's happening? why would anyone do that

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

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.

Cowboy logic

looks like we'll have to replace 🤡 with 🤠 now

wow, thats not a great move for the environment or the history of humankind. Oh well.

Its a zero win. I would have eaten this because I'm vegan. Meat eaters would prefer normal meats. Now I go back to just beans. Fuck rather I won't even say what I eat. That way the retards leading this stupid Rednoseance won't ban whatever I plan to eat next. Heck you know what? I'm totally going to eat beef. The most expensive kind of beef and chicken. Yeah! Totally. I'm a vegan and I will go eat the most popular meats out there!

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.

Is there any legit reason to be against lab grown meat?

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.

Regulatory capture in action

Mother fuckers. Can we outlaw these lawmakers from breathing air. Fuck that noise. These fucker don't care what people put in their bodies or they be regulations on the pfsa and shit. How can we overturn this BS and how can I stop Oklahoma from passing this bill?

More freedumb.