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[–] [email protected] 181 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Party of small government my fucking ass. Also, isn't the free market allowed to produce any product and compete for consumer spending? Isn't that capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 93 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Desantis is literally pushing these laws and screaming woke while pocketing millions of dollars of "donations" from the large cattle ranching companies throughout the state. Hell, he started attacking Disney once they stopped paying him millions in bribes too. Disney's disagreement with the dont say gay bill was the perfect excuse

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

It's all bad faith arguments. They just use it as a weapon to get their way. Although, this reeks of corporate regulatory capture.

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[–] otp 101 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We'll, I guess that means lab-grown meat is showing promise! I look forward to seeing it in stores.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm so fucking sick of the Florida government. House insurance is astronomical, but they're worried about lab-grown meat, teachers saying gay, and books.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Think of them a bit like a friend with a drug problem. They gotta ride this train all the way to the bottom before there will be any interest in change.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Man, for a party that talks about freedoms, they sure love taking them away. As long as their followers still have gun rights, fuck everything else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

No,, they're very much not allowed to fuck everything else. They are allowed to fuck one thing in very specific circumstances (age not being one of them)

[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Aaaahhh the political party of not wanting to interfere in people's lives.

Unless you eat meat from a source that might change an industry and cause a select few individuals to be slightly less rich

Unless you masturbate and waste gods seed

Unless you love the wrong person

Unless you want to vote for the wrong person

Unless you believe in the wrong or (gasp) no god at all!

Unless you're the wrong skin color, how dare you!

Unless you have the wrong genitals

Unless you have the wrong wrong genitals

Unless...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago

Politics is bout ideology, value and belief. But here, it's about making decisions by dogmatism and cult. This is a whole different level.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony.

What in the fuck is going on in these guys heads. I get being beholden to the cattle industry but this shit is beyond that

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

It's about pushing all the people who live there and disagree with the Republican agenda.

[–] Socsa 8 points 7 months ago

They are actually that fragile.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (24 children)

So far Florida seems to be a good shooter when it comes to its own foot. Make Diznee illegal, abortion illegal, abortion pill, tofu meat. What's next? Smoothies?

Let's make an allegory to porn and prostitution that George Carlin made some years back... Selling is legal, fucking is legal, do why can't selling fucking also be legal?

Banana is legal, orange is legal, so why can't a smoothie be legal? The answer is "Florida!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not a Florida supporter here, but the article is not about tofu meat:

Over the last several months, Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban — and criminalize — the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

Florida is taking away the freedom of any person to eat whatever they want? Is anyone surprised?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wanna get one of those cigarette boats and smuggle abortion pills and alternative meat into Florida and trans people out.

It'll be black with a red racing stripe and a spoiler like the A Team van and I'll name it the Baracus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Can I join you? I will bring one two and we can start the freedom floatilla.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

Always with the lame anecdotal argument that sounds like it came from a drunk idiot.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois, the Republican who introduced a similar bill, HB 1071, told Politico that his major motivation is protecting the cattle industry. “Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida,” Sirois stated, adding, "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have.”

I don't agree with him on the policy, but I'll give him this: that's more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I've seen.

Usually there's something about how it's potentially deadly or maybe waving around "concerns" about whether there'd be food security in a global famine or something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

It's also a very stupid take. If that's what he thinks, then he should finance farms that transition from growing animals to growing whatever is needed in this more modern and civilised world, like high protein legumes and that sort of stuff used in producing new generation foods.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Wow that's extremely anti capitalist and still sucks ass

Bravo to this guy, sucking in exactly all ways

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I love how humans try their hardest to cut down on the amount of destruction they cause only for other humans to villainize and tear them down at every turn.

[–] Varyk 29 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Medicine is too woke for Florida. So is meat, so are books.

Anyone have any predictions?

I feel like seat belts are going to be too woke soon for Florida.

Driving licenses altogether might be too woke.

Salads? Too woke for Florida

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I feel like they should probably get rid of the seatbelt law… let the problem sort itself out,

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is great! This'll lower prices for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

They're actually setting up the board with some big criminal penalties for selling it. It'll have a cross state freezing effect on the vendors as a whole and transportation through states. They're going full drug war on it. I didn't expect their need for cattle farmer votes to be so acute.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alternative meat sounds like a slang term for a dildo.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't care what Rick Desantis says. It's my right as an American to enjoy Soylent Green.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's good to see Florida really taking the lead on tackling the issues that matter.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I've been watching the tech to make actual meat from cell lines emerge with some optimism- it promises to make it possible for us to have meat in our diets without all the greenhouse gases and feedlots and the like- but it also threatens to consolidate the protein industry into even fewer corporate hands if it's not well-regulated.

The meat industry is honestly pretty awful (environmentally, politically, ethically, etc.) and I find myself rooting for the plucky young frankenmonsters that might come along and knock them down even though I'm pretty sure they'll be worse if they're not well regulated from the start.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not long until they ban Linux!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

They need to lose in court again, I guess. Sorry taxpayers, that's 20 million right off the top.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I like meat too, but this is silly. Just had roast chicken yesterday. I also have a freezer with two door shelves lined with tubes of Impossible Sausage. It's a pretty damn good "sausage", and without those hard/random bits of gristle you'll encounter with the real thing. Think there's some Quorn chicken nuggets in there too. Just buy as you like.

And soy was a lovely mitigator for menopausal hot flashes. Dosed myself with soy on the daily for those weeks, no flashes (awful random surges of heat, head to toes, such that you sweat into your hair, behind your knees, awful.) Miss a day, hot flashes. Although, when you think on it, this fits with Florida, really. Fuck women's health, amiright?

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