I’m vegetarian with most of my meals fully vegan - also as full disclosure.
However, I do think it’s reasonable to assume that when a lot of money is at stake, there will be groups out there doing what they can to manipulate public opinion and stack the legislation on things related to our food system. Often, this is right out in the open, like the lobbyist system, PACs, and so on. Or in cases where someone like Oprah was taken to court in Texas for saying something about mad cow disease…Texas has their Texas Beef Promotion and Research Act. She ultimately won, but that’s Oprah we are talking about. Not everyone can afford a nuisance lawsuit like that, so I’m sure it has a chilling effect.
And then, more recently, there are now states who have enough politicians under the influence of industry to preemptively hinder lab grown meats. Which I just find bizarre, you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
They are stuck behind so much infrastructure that it would be, to them, so cost prohibitive that they need to oppose it. Just think of all of the chicken, farmers, warehouses, feed lots, etc, that they deal with. I agree that they should get on board. And they are only shooting themselves in the foot. But, I guess, as long as they can squeeze as much as they can while they can, they are going to do it
I’m vegetarian with most of my meals fully vegan - also as full disclosure.
However, I do think it’s reasonable to assume that when a lot of money is at stake, there will be groups out there doing what they can to manipulate public opinion and stack the legislation on things related to our food system. Often, this is right out in the open, like the lobbyist system, PACs, and so on. Or in cases where someone like Oprah was taken to court in Texas for saying something about mad cow disease…Texas has their Texas Beef Promotion and Research Act. She ultimately won, but that’s Oprah we are talking about. Not everyone can afford a nuisance lawsuit like that, so I’m sure it has a chilling effect.
And then, more recently, there are now states who have enough politicians under the influence of industry to preemptively hinder lab grown meats. Which I just find bizarre, you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
They are stuck behind so much infrastructure that it would be, to them, so cost prohibitive that they need to oppose it. Just think of all of the chicken, farmers, warehouses, feed lots, etc, that they deal with. I agree that they should get on board. And they are only shooting themselves in the foot. But, I guess, as long as they can squeeze as much as they can while they can, they are going to do it