This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

This sort of thing is not just happening in the EU. In the USA, a large number of states, including Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado and Louisiana, among others, have also attempted to implement similar bans on plant-based food and cell-cultured meat labelling. Interestingly, seven of the ten biggest cattle farming states appear on that list, which is perhaps not surprising when the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s top policy priority in 2019 was addressing ‘false and deceptive marketing’, and they created a petition calling on the word ‘meat’ to be used only for animals farmed in the traditional manner.26 This is ironic coming from an industry that uses selective breeding, artificial insemination and genetically modified crops, not to mention growth promoters, hormones and antibiotics, to maximise their profits. It’s also worth mentioning that many of these states would classify themselves as having a ‘small government’ approach to politics, a phrase that signifies upholding libertarian values of limited government intervention, especially in terms of public policy and private-sector regulation. Except, of course, the very opposite is true when it comes to their involvement in censoring the plant-based sector. Obviously, one of the primary reasons for this comes down to the relationship that the agricultural sector has with government and there’s no better example of this than the dairy industry.