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, Nebraskas 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 nations 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.
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Beef its whats for dinner. Dont want no vegyburger.
If the Good Lord hadn’t intended for us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?
Yes, defend us against the criminal efforts of the foreign weirdos in *those* states. No fake meat!
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?
There is room at the table for all of God’s creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.
When two cows (or sheep or pigs or rabbits ... ) get together, that’s a meet, right?
Sweet Old Bob and Mr Dresbach are rolling in their graves that this needs to be done.
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 natures 7 food groups. Onion rings are optional.
“veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat”
none of the concoctions tastes even remotely like real meat ...
Cue up Clara Peller! (Where’s the beef?)
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