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Industry wary of alternatives tries to protect a word: meat
Associated Press ^ | January 12, 2018 | Grant Schulte

Posted on 01/13/2019 6:31:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, Nebraska’s powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat.

Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year defining meat as “any edible portion of any livestock or poultry, carcass, or part thereof” and excluding “lab-grown or insect or plant-based food products.” It would make it a crime to advertise or sell something “as meat that is not derived from poultry or livestock.”

Similar measures aimed at meat alternatives are pending in Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming. They come amid a debate over what to call products that are being developed using the emerging science of meat grown by culturing cells in a lab. Supporters of the science are embracing the term “clean meat” — language the conventional meat industry strongly opposes.

The issue strikes a particularly strong chord in Nebraska, one of the nation’s top states for livestock production, where cars roll down the interstate with “Beef State” license plates and the governor each year proclaims May as “Beef Month.” […]

The Good Food Institute, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and plant-based food company Tofurkey have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Missouri law. They argue the law unfairly stifles competition. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bugburgers; creepyweirdomeat; fakemeat; fakenews; liberalagenda; meatless; missouri; nebraska; soyboys; tennessee; vegan; vegetarian; virginia; wyoming

1 posted on 01/13/2019 6:31:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Beef it’s what’s for dinner”. Don’t want no vegyburger.


2 posted on 01/13/2019 6:35:50 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: Equine1952

If the Good Lord hadn’t intended for us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?


3 posted on 01/13/2019 6:37:58 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, defend us against the criminal efforts of the foreign weirdos in *those* states. No fake meat!


4 posted on 01/13/2019 6:39:41 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Olog-hai

What’s the matter with creepy weirdos who want to make us eat fake meat? Did they start using some kind of drug in their youth that turned them into creepy, leftist weirdos?


5 posted on 01/13/2019 6:42:54 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: FirstFlaBn

There is room at the table for all of God’s creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.


6 posted on 01/13/2019 6:43:05 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Olog-hai

When two cows (or sheep or pigs or rabbits ... ) get together, that’s a meet, right?


7 posted on 01/13/2019 6:45:09 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: Olog-hai

Sweet Old Bob and Mr Dresbach are rolling in their graves that this needs to be done.


8 posted on 01/13/2019 7:11:35 PM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: posterchild

I love pork tenderloin pounded out and thin, breaded, and fried on a hot toasted bun with fried zucchini and fries. The pork is meat. The rest is vegetables and the cholesterol is free. The beer is just part of nature’s 7 food groups. Onion rings are optional.


9 posted on 01/13/2019 7:34:14 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: Olog-hai

“veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat”

none of the concoctions tastes even remotely like real meat ...


10 posted on 01/13/2019 8:52:51 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Olog-hai

11 posted on 01/13/2019 8:54:55 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Cue up Clara Peller! (Where’s the beef?)


12 posted on 01/14/2019 5:39:01 AM PST by W. (I'm tired of cleaning up after autokorrect. Wish it would die!)
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