A bill in the Nebraska legislature that would ban the labeling of plant-based or lab-based food products as “meat” has been modified to avoid some of the legal challenges those laws have faced in other states.
State Senator Carol Blood of Bellevue says the new bill, LB 594, acts as an amendment to the existing Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
“We decided that there’s already the infrastructure put in place, through the Department of Agriculture, should there be consumer complaints when people do have concerns about products being labeled in a deceptive fashion,” Blood says.
