Rep. John Sjaarda (R-2/Valley Springs) wants to ban test-tube meat for ten years. Rep. Julie Auch (R-18/Yankton) wants to treat cell-cultured protein like shit.
Rep. Auch is prime sponsor of House Bill 1077, which would add “cultivated-protein food product” to the existing criteria for “adulterated” food. These criteria, in SDCL 39-4-2, include substances that are added to food to reduce quality or to conceal damage or inferiority, “poisonous or otherwise deleterious” ingredients, “filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or of any portion of any animal unfit for food“, “a portion of a diseased animal or of an animal which has been fed upon the uncooked offal from a slaughterhouse or other substance unfit for animal food, or of one that has died otherwise than by slaughter“, and food that “is not at all times securely protected from all filth, flies, dust, contamination, or other unclean, unhealthful, or insanitary conditions.”
In other words, HB 1077 declares that cultivated meat, grown in clean bioreactors, farther removed from manure and mad-cow than any meat critter, deserves the same legal treatment as roadkill and pig poop. By deeming cultivated protein an adulteration of food, HB 1077 would make manufacture, transportation, distribution, sale of test-tube meat a Class 2 misdemeanor. The transportation ban in SDCL 39-4-19 applies to “any article of food which is adulterated”, not just commercial quantities or shipments intended for sale, so HB 1077 would appear to ban South Dakotans from driving across the border to any neighboring state that respects science and consumer choice, buying some test-tube chicken nuggets, and bringing them home.
I miss the good old days when we could count on Republicans to defend science, progress, and opportunities for economic diversification. But Auch, co-sponsor Sjaarda, and other South Dakota Republicans seem determined to push hidebound food policy.
You fellows can eat veggie burgers and fake meat to your gluttonous delight, but grudznick will take my bacon from a real pig. No powdered milk, either.
🎯 The takeaway
“Hidebound” here is a pointed way of saying the legislators are so tied to old assumptions and cultural habits that they refuse to consider modern, evidence-based approaches to food policy.
HB1077 is clinging to outdated definitions of food safety
Ignoring scientific evidence about cultivated meat
Blocking economic diversification and technological progress
Never wonder why SD is continually 15 -20 years “behind” we liberal states. Your elected representatives and the majority of your voters “want” to be a couple decades behind. It appears safer and you don’t have to change. – PLAN
PS … grudz has the liberal view on this, just like me. Give me as many food choices as possible. I like both. You don’t have to but don’t take away my choice.
German Americans have trouble with this view. Being told what to eat is better for their brains.
Be sure to check out Pluribus where Human Derived Protein is a thing!
Ah, Porter, you still have you enlightened view of German Americans. How refreshing.
Cory, (you too, Porter), I am perfectly fine with letting cultured meat
compete in the market place. How do you think that would turn out?
Paraphrasing Paula Poundstone on the new food pyramid: “Republicans want us to eat more meat but it has to come from the side of the road.”
@EdwinArndt: Hi Edwin. From the top …
You’ve got Two German Americans acting like Nazis, right. now. Maybe Kristi Eichmann and Donald Hitler got teased about being Nazis, as kids? Or maybe they just feel superior when their boys drag Mexicans through the snow.
Anyway where you live is the haven for German Americans and 90 % or more love Trump’s plans. We liberals won’t forget. When it’s time to round you German Americans into a herd and move you to El Salvador or Somali life camps you’re easy to recognize. We’re coming for you but you don’t know when.
• How do I think cultured meat will do in the market. I follow BYND (Beyond Meat). It’s volatile which I like. It’s a buy tomorrow @$99.00 a share. It was $107.00 four days ago.. I don’t eat it very often because it’s out of my price range. Two bricks of hard TOFU are cheaper and more versatile.
Glad you’re doing well, Edwin.
Porter
Well, it will be more fun eating illegally. The price will eventually drop below the “real” thing and always taste better, texture wise too. That price drop will be the turning point. As soon as that happens kaboom.
You can always turn western South Dakota into a State Park. That way you can still have bison hunts. Bows and arrows of course. Mud Butte would flourish so your current governor would be fine.
As a chef, I welcome new things. It’s the German Americans up north that feel better when they criticize. Feel as good as you can. Anything to get through Winter, huh? We’ll laugh with you, but in a Lutheran way. Watch this Lutheran.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Dc4FpanP1/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Remember Grudz, people are what they eat.
Republicans want to control what we eat or don’t eat now? If it’s not available in our state, we’ll order it online or like Coors Beer in the old days, have friends bring it to us or go get it ourselves. Bootleg Beef.
People like choices. If stores carry pink slime or veggie protein flavored beef, and they don’t sell, they’ll quit ordering it. Simple as that.
But to ban it totally is extreme to say the least. I am disgusted when I see head cheese, pickled pigs’ feet, pig snouts, and beef intestines in the deli near the checkout till, but I don’t think they should be banned from the deli. There are actually people who love to eat that ____!
Did Republicans in South Dakota outlaw cars back in the day because this new mode of transportation, cars, was a threat to the horse cartel?