Beef-friendly Nebraska eyes regulations on the word 'meat'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Beef-friendly Nebraska eyes regulations on the word ‘meat’

By GRANT SCHULTE
January 13, 2019

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, Nebraska’s powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat.

Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year to prevent companies that package and sell food from advertising plant-based, insect-based and lab-grown products as meat. Similar measures are pending in Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming.

The issue strikes a particularly strong cord in Nebraska, one of the nation’s top states for livestock production, where cars roll down the interstate with “Beef State” license plates and the governor each year proclaims May as “Beef Month.”

Farm groups have found an unusual ally in state Sen. Carol Blood, a city-dwelling vegetarian from the Omaha suburb of Bellevue. Blood, who grew up on a farm, said she introduced the measure because agriculture is Nebraska’s largest industry and needs to be protected for the good of the whole state.

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. Too bad America can't do the same for the word "News"

[erronis]

5. Right! How about Organic or All Natural, Non-GMO, Free Range News?

Fair and Balanced?

All The News That's Fit To Print? (fit according to someone's standards)

[LongtimeAZDem]

2. Eat Steak

[SWBTATTReg]

3. These people can do what they like. As long as the product is correctly identified of what's...

it is made of, and is not misleading to consumers and the like. Some products are kind of confusing to really identify what they are made of, so in a way I support measures like this. It shouldn't require someone w/ 10 degrees and the like to figure out what's really in one's food.

On the other hand, if the legislation is too heavy handed and overwhelms common sense, then I don't support stuff such as this.

Also, beef is up there in price and is too expensive for me to buy on an everyday basis. A little package/steak is $15 dollars! I know pricing is dependent on cut, quality, etc., but still, perhaps Nebraskans can also get the prices down a little for the rest of us, so we can enjoy it a little more, or are you unable to do anything to reduce the price?

[tblue37]

6. I only buy steak on half-price sale. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I do too. The supermarket sometimes has beef cuts that need to be cleared out on ...

clearance before they're too old, so I often times look there. If I don't find any beef items that I'm interested in, I don't get freaked out, since if I don't have any beef, I'm doing my health a favor. I'll pick a healthy filet of fish or similar and get.

I've cut way back on consumption of red meats (maybe once a month, and probably less in reality) and thus, helping my health, by limiting my intake of red meats.

[wasupaloopa]

9. If limiting intake of red meat is health, ywhat is becoming vegetarian? If you know eating red me

is less healthy, why eat it?

[SWBTATTReg]

10. I am not a vegetarian. I eat meats and do limit red meat. I eat the other meats too. I in

no way said I wanted to be a vegetarian nor do I want to be one, although I do seemingly practice a diet that vegetarians practice.

[Blues Heron]

4. nutmeats ftw

this is soy milk redux.

[keithbvadu2]

8. And include the chemical/pharmaceutical ingredients in the real meat?

And include the chemical/pharmaceutical ingredients in the real meat?