You can tell the meat and death industry must be getting scared if they’re starting to work to pass laws like this. The public certainly isn’t asking for it. We’re asking for more plant-based products. No one ever picked up a pack of seitan and confused it with a hamburger. They typically don’t even get sold in the same sections of the supermarket, from my experience.
I think it’s interesting, too, that this is happening in Mississippi, the state that ranks 48th in education. Pick the state with the least educated people and then accuse them of not being smart enough to tell the difference between meat and plant-based “meat” substitute products. It’s sort of insidious.
You have to wonder where we could be if that plant-based “meat” market can continue to grow, even in the face of this. We could have a healthier planet for our kids, nieces, and nephews. We could stop subsidizing the meat industry and put that into subsidizing education so that people in Mississippi actually understand the difference between plants and animals Maybe that’s the real problem.