“This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers, and consumers,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement following the bill’s passage. “Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”
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Texas joins Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Nebraska in enacting new laws this year; Alabama and Florida did so last year. In March, the Oklahoma House approved a similar bill that did not advance out of the Senate this session.
Is it not the case in the US that cowboy something means that something is a scam/crook/dishonest?
I assumed cowboy means scammer/crook was common in all English speaking countries.
I’m not a native English speaker though I’m good enough at it that I usually understand sayings and proverbs without issue. I’ve never heard of this cowboy <something> however.
You just said the same thing twice, except framed the fact as an innocent question first with your personal assumption as its reference point. I’m going to assume it’s a language thing and not a shitty argument tactic, though…
The short answer is no.