Why are Republicans always wrong about literally everything? Oh, that’s right. Faith-based belief system instead of a reality-based belief system.
Protecting their ridiculous regressive views of how the west was
wonexploited via cattle and oil. They all want to protect their landowners that control huge chunks of farm and grazing land, and a significant chunk of that land is used to feed cattle. Get rid of the need to feed and raise cattle and Big Donors might be upset.
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”.
What the absolute fuck.
sounds like the people owning these ‘farms’ actively try their hardest with all their might to be as evil as possible
Thank goodness we’re firing all those wasteful government bureaucrats, who were adding red tape and keeping businesses from innovating. Soon things will be great again, like in the 1850…
“free market” republicans strike again
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
I think Desantis did this in Florida and since no one stopped it now it will traverse every red state slowly
Just like Measles.
Leave it to one of the lowest education scoring states, that most folks actively flee, to do some dumb shit.
“How can we throttle evolution?”
“Hold my beer”
How did they define lab because that could result in a hilarious ban of commercial farms.
Lab-grown meat killed my mom…true story, lab-grown meat broke into her house and stabbed her 957 times with a fork.
Lab grown meat turned me into a newt
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!
Meat industry lobbyists: 🤑🤑🤑
… Big Meat?
Mississippi always has toilet paper stuck to its shoe.
republicans chasing ghosts, episode 2137
outside of silicon valley marketing materials, lab-grown meat is ridiculously expensive or straight up doesn’t exist. deer has immune system, grasshopper has immune system, stainless steel reactor full of cell suspension doesn’t. in order to prevent entire batch turning into mold or something, every starting material has to be pharma-grade and every operation has to be performed in sterile technique. it’s all fine for products like insulin or vaccines where single dose fits easily in sub-mg range, but if you try to price meat like this, it won’t be ever competitive for this reason alone.
but it gets worse, because people who try to do that are some random techbros without engineering background. strangely enough, this doesn’t matter, because every enterprise of this kind just rides on VC money. predictably, they burn it all. as long as you can attract it, things are good and for that all you need is good pitch. We’ll solve single cell meat with nanotechnology! We’ll solve single cell meat with 3d-printing! We’ll solve single cell meat with blockchain! We’ll solve single-cell meat with chatbots!
if you believe these people, world is simple and future is bright. i know many of you all on lemmy do.
i’ll say more: these people are selling imagined future where you can save the world in some measure (go vegan), and you don’t have to give up anything in the process (eating meat), as long as you Buy Our Product! then there are credulous marks primed for luxurious gay space consumerism, but magic tech that allows for it is just beyond the corner, then they disappear. but people still believe, and are disappointed when they have to make even tiny sacrifice on their own. newsflash dipshit: future won’t be convenient
what I find silly about going “vegan” is that it’s roughly 5% of the US population. Let’s say you boost it to 10% with all the posturing about saving the planet. Getting 50% of the population to half their meat consumption would have 5x the impact.
yeah it’s maximalist and in some ways impractical, not to mention some other considerations like carbon emissions
It would be cool if the could grow an immune system too
we don’t even know how little we know about finer details of immunology
but you know that? go and sell this idea somewhere in bay area. it doesn’t matter if it’s all wishful thinking, i won’t stop you, and maybe you’ll get to meet Elizabeth Holmes
Opposition to lab grown meat is surprisingly popular. Normies get really creeped out about it unfortunately.
Fuck the normies. I would never, say, hide milk in a vegan’s food. But I would 100% serve these idiots lab meat and tell them about it later.
How unnecessary. Lab grown meat will fail to sell and be dropped from stores all on its own merits.
Cheap guilt free meat built to whatever fat percentage you want will fail to sell?
Well you enjoy your $50/lbs wagu, and I’ll enjoy exactly the same quality at $3/lbs.
I mean there’s a difference between normal steak and wagu too.
Like at my Walmart steak is selling for ~$10/lbs, and ground beef is like $6 or $7 per pound. Right now beyond ground beef is selling for ~$11/lbs.
And it doesn’t taste the same. So you will actually have to hit that $3/lbs mark your talking about before it becomes a good option. Because pork chops are already only $4/lbs
But it inevitably will become that cheap, as your steak and pork become infinitely, exponentially more expensive over time.
We’re already massively subsidizing meat production and we’re entirely ignoring the majority of meats costs in calculating prices.
Those costs are going to keep getting higher, however, and those subsidies won’t be able to last even in a wealthy monetary issues country like the US. Unless you completely abandon capitalism, real beef isnt going to be a thing for middle class or poor people within 20 years, and it won’t be a thing period within a hundred.
However the tech to print meat will get smaller and cheaper over time and the seed ingredients are already cheaper than the land maintenance and feed for real livestock. Hell it’s cheaper than most inputs for anything except corn and wheat. There will be a time in the next few decades where middle class people in smart countries will have a meat printer at home to make whatever they want for dinner and shopping for meat will be too prohibitively expensive for anyone but the rich.
Climate change is already causing crop failures and water distribution fights, and quite frankly the meat industry doesn’t have enough money to fight the climate on this issue.
lab-grown meat is a dead end grift and you should have known better. unless you think that prices in range of $10k/kg are sustainable and affordable, that is, or maybe you live in world of sfba announcements. this article is from 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20241208141305/https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
Any data to support that? I’ve noticed that the animal free meat options at the grocery stores near me are growing.
