• roguetrick@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony.

    What in the fuck is going on in these guys heads. I get being beholden to the cattle industry but this shit is beyond that

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      4 months ago

      They probably have their identities tied to meat consumption. That’s also a reason for the climate denialism. I recently learned about petro-masculinity and it seems very plausible to me.

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      4 months ago

      The same people believed margarine was a grave socialist (iirc) threat to the country and made the production and sale of that a felony. I think around a century ago. Something, something, those who neglect to learn history, something something…

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        4 months ago

        Don’t bring up partially hydrogenated vegetable oil here. You’re gonna jinx us and make fake meat kill everybody.