AMERICA’S cattle producing state has passed a bill to prevent plant and cell-based meat companies from making misleading claims – with the legislation heading to the state’s governor Greg Abbott for his signature.
According to the Texas Farm Bureau language in the bill defines meat as “any edible portion of a livestock carcass that does not contain lab-grown, cell cultured, insect or plant-based food products.” Livestock is limited to cattle, sheep, swine, goats and poultry.
The bill also addresses cell-cultured products, requiring the products to be labelled as either…
