Maybe I’m giving Oklahomans too much credit, but I feel that we’re all smart enough to know when food is, you know, vegan. Be it for its strange colors, otherworldly tastes or the fact that it’s already labeled vegan, it’s quite hard to get fooled. Or, at least, fooled again.
Well, that is unless you are a foolish Oklahoma lawmaker or governor.
Earlier this year, they passed the Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act. Going into effect on November 1, it will require evil vegan food companies like Upton's Naturals to carry large, obtuse and totally unnecessary warning labels on their products that caution customers that what they are about to buy is presumably plant-based and might not give them cancer, heart attacks, or stroke.
Vegan food makers like Upton’s Naturals found this to be a bit restrictive and unfair, and of course, is now suing the state, claiming the new law is unconstitutional.