Because Nebraska has nothing better to do during the part-time legislature session:

Ricketts announces ‘Meat on the Menu Day’ in response to Colorado’s ‘MeatOUT Day’ (Omaha World-Herald)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is going toe-to-toe, or perhaps it’s fork-to-fork, with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis over eating meat.

On Friday, Ricketts announced that he had designated March 20 as “Meat on the Menu Day” in Nebraska. He is encouraging people to buy and eat beef, pork, chicken, lamb or another kind of meat on that day.

He said he was doing so to highlight the importance of meat in a good diet as well as to provide an opportunity to support Nebraska farmers and ranchers. Nebraska is a major beef-producing state and also has a number of hog and chicken operations.

“While meat is one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat, there are radical anti-agriculture activists that are working to end meat production and our way of life here in Nebraska,” Ricketts said.

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No one is working to end “our way of life” Governor Ameritrade. Hyperbole much? People are working to make livestock operations more humane and less polluting, unless you think pollution and animal cruelty is our way of life (you might, since you’re a conservative).