Red State Notches Historic MAHA Win

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Mississippi has become the first state to ban fake milk in a huge win for consumers and the traditional dairy industry.

In a bipartisan move, the Mississippi state House passed Bill 1153 on Thursday, which will ban the manufacture and sale of cell-cultured milk. It will also crack down on food products labelled as “meat” that are, in fact, the opposite of real meat, and limit how the meat label can be used on “alternative protein products,” such as plant-based foods. (RELATED: Big Companies Seem To Be Ignoring MAHA Way, Change Two Everyday Food Items)

“We became, with House Bill 1153 this year, the first state in America to outlaw lab-grown dairy products,” Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said. “We want real food for the real people of Mississippi.”

Dairy Products are for sale at a New York City market on July 13, 2022. US consumer price inflation surged 9.1 percent over the past 12 months to June, the fastest increase since November 1981, according to government data released on July 13. Driven by record-high gasoline prices, the consumer price index jumped 1.3 percent in June, the Labor Department reported. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Although this is an historic first and certainly a step in the right direction, some local Mississippi farmers and raw milk producers are still concerned about regulations and limited access to markets.

“If you drive down this road, you’ll see where there used to be farms that were active, supporting their community, having local food available, whole food, and today there isn’t one of them,” Ben Simmons, owner of Nature’s Gourmet Farm, said.

Grazing Way Farm owner Jacob Leggett said his raw milk was thriving and had high customer demand before regulators and costs snuffed it out.

“We have many people that would come from far and wide to come and buy it,” he said.

I’m sure there’s more to be done to help raw milk producers and protect them from being crushed by regulators, bureaucrats, and Big Food. But this seems like a pretty big win. What’s more, the state is cracking down on fake meat labels, which is one of my long-standing pet peeves. No company should be allowed to hawk a totally fake product and get away with marketing it as “meat.”

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