How did they define lab because that could result in a hilarious ban of commercial farms.
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Mississippi always has toilet paper stuck to its shoe.
Why are Republicans always wrong about literally everything? Oh, that's right. Faith-based belief system instead of a reality-based belief system.
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I only want my meat to be raised by a cow on a feedlot while covered in manure and constantly smelling so awful, I would gag if I ever went. Then I want that cow's greatest mental stimulation to be the one time he climbed on top of the 1 meter pile of manure and could see further than any other cow, and then proceed to stick his head back into the giant trough of corn that's been pre-mixed with antibiotics because corn is not a natural food source for cows. That's what meat is supposed to be, as god intended.
Let's drink swill milk [Wikipedia] to that.
The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk.
Swill milk referred to milk from cows fed swill which was residual mash from nearby distilleries. The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.
Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases. These cows were fed boiling distillery waste, often leaving the cows with rotting teeth and other maladies. The milk drawn from the cows was routinely adulterated with water, rotten eggs, flour, burnt sugar, and other adulterants with the finished product then marketed falsely as "pure country milk" or "Orange County Milk".
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Opposition to lab grown meat is surprisingly popular. Normies get really creeped out about it unfortunately.
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Leave it to one of the lowest education scoring states, that most folks actively flee, to do some dumb shit.
Lab-grown meat killed my mom...true story, lab-grown meat broke into her house and stabbed her 957 times with a fork.
https://tapintoindustry.com/target-industries/food-manufacturing/
Agriculture [in Mississippi] is a major industry.
Mmmhmm. Looks like Mississippi has a cattle rancher industry association. One would imagine that that group isn't too keen on competition from meat from a lab.
We Represent Mississippi's Cattlemen
Mississippi Cattlemen's Association is focused on addressing local, state and federal issues that impact the long-term viability of cattle farming in Mississippi.
From the article:
Mississippi’s agriculture commissioner, Andy Gipson, has criticized the cultivated meat industry, and he supported a 2019 bill that prevented cultivated meat products being labeled as meat in the state. In 2024 he published a post on his website that commended the cultivated meat bans in Florida and Alabama. “I want my steak to come from farm-raised beef, not a petri-dish from a lab,” he wrote.
Sounds like Mr. Gipson isn't too keen on that lab-grown meat either. First is was just labeling, and now it's outright banning.
Let's look into Andy Gipson's biography!
https://www.mdac.ms.gov/agency-info/about-andy-gipson/
Andy Gipson serves as Mississippi’s eighth Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce.
Uh huh.
Gipson has owned and managed a cattle operation in Simpson County for more than 20 years and a tree farm since 2004. He is a member of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the Simpson County Development Foundation.
Well, now, there's a coincidence. He happens to be part of the industry and the industry advocacy association that he's regulating. Sure is a small world!
"free market" republicans strike again
I think Desantis did this in Florida and since no one stopped it now it will traverse every red state slowly
Just like Measles.
Freedom is when the government tells you what you're allowed to buy (assuming it passes safety standards, anyway)
What safety standards? Those are getting the ax, too
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