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This couldn’t possibly be the result of corrupted politicians influenced by some kind of lobbying!

People merely need to be protected from the evils of anything that might threaten the profits of the meat industry!

Florida only supplies about 3% of beef to the industry, so I doubt it. It's more culture war than anything. "They're coming for your steaks!" Whoever the fuck "they" are.

Isn't this actually a way to keep the steaks on the table?

Us liberals, is what they mean. I dunno what we’d do with it, though. We’re all vegetarian.

I don't think you meant it seriously, but I was surprised how few vegetarians/vegans there are in the US. Even among self-described liberals, it's only 9%.[0] Although it does seem that more people are reducing their meat consumption.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/510038/identify-vegetarian-vega...

I would’ve thought the number to be higher, too. I will say I’ve tried the current batch of veggie-based fake meat and it’s only good in certain applications. I suspect the vatjob meat coming out will be much the same for some time to come.

It's not, really. I mean, at the margins, sure, I'm sure the "Meat Industry" does some lobbying. But this is 99.42% culture war. Florida republicans aren't trying to do a random favor for a niche industry[1], they're banning their political enemies to excite their base.

This would be like trying to get woke votes by putting "Pronoun Choice" as a field on your government tax forms or whatever. Except of course that this is actually happening.

[1] A quick google says that the USA meat market revenue is about half of Apple's or a quarter of what Amazon pulls in. This is a real industry, but not a big one.

It's really more culture war than industrial lobbying. Sure, the industry is perfectly happy to have it, but it's popular far beyond people directly involved. Florida's government has defined itself as "anti-woke", and anything they can present as opposition to the left is politically good for them.

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