Mississippi food-labeling law ban terms like 'meatless meatballs' and 'vegan bacon'
in Mississippi bans vegetarian and vegan meat substitutes from using meat-related terms like"bacon" and"meatballs."
According to the law, food made from plants—or insects—cannot be labelled as meat or"a meat food product." The law also bans food using animal tissue created from laboratory cultures from being labeled meat.."I don't want to eat meat grown by a test tube in a laboratory. If my constituents do, they ought to know what they're getting."
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