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State Representative Jim Buchy
Responding to
meat alternatives
An article recently published in the Dayton Daily News, headlined
“Research ramping up for alternatives to meat,” caught my attention.
While I support both free market ingenuity and entrepreneurship, I am
concerned that the effort to replace meat on the dinner table with a
“meat alternative” could end up having adverse effects on Ohio’s meat
industry.
Not only is meat and protein a very important component of our diet,
but it is also an important contributor to Ohio’s economy. The state’s
beef industry, for instance, produces about $500 million annually in
economic impact. When it comes to poultry, egg, chicken and turkey
farms create more than 14,600 jobs annually and generate more than $400
million for our economy each year.
Not only can meat in the diet build strong people, but with its
economic impact, meat also helps us build a strong state. Therefore,
although people are free to eat what they want, I will stand up and
fight back against anything that hopes to unfairly tarnish our state’s
meat industry.
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