JUSTIN MCCARTHY AND SCOTT DEKOSTER, - The Gallup Organization
Stephan: Here is some very interesting news which, I think, is the beginning of a trend. Large scale animal husbandry, such as exists now is not sustainable, and will not be possible as climate change progresses. Note who the early adopters are.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
About three in 10 women, nonwhites and Democrats have reduced meat intake
Most cite health as reason behind their reduced meat consumption
Smaller meat portions, recipe substitutes popular ways to avoid meat
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly one in four Americans (23%) report eating less meat in the past year than they had previously, while the vast majority (72%) say they are eating the same amount of meat. Very few (5%) report eating more meat this year than in the past.
Americans’ Reports of Meat-Eating Changes Over the Past Year, by Subgroup
In the past 12 months, have you been eating more meat, less meat, or about the same amount?
More
Same amount
Less
%
%
%
National adults
5
72
23
Men
6
79
15
Women
4
65
31
Whites
5
76
19
Nonwhites
5
64
31
18-29
10
66
23
30-49
5
75
19
50-64
3
74
23
65+
2
72
26
Republicans
6
81
12
Independents
5
71
24
Democrats
3
66
30
East
4
73
23
Midwest
4
79
17
South
5
71
24
West
6
69
25
City residents
5
71
24
Suburb residents
5
71
24
Rural/town residents
4
76
19
Sep 16-30, 2019
GALLUP
These data are from a Sept. 16-30 Gallup telephone poll with U.S. adults.
Asked how often they eat meat — such as beef, chicken or pork — two in three U.S. adults say they eat it “frequently” (67%) while 23% say they eat meat “occasionally” and 7% “rarely” eat it. Just 3% report “never” eating meat.
Certain groups are more likely than others to say they have eaten less meat in the past year:
Women are about twice as likely as men to report […]
Stephan: The American Gulag, along with the U.S. illness profit system, the failure of public education, wealth inequality, the nation's paltry social safety net, college student debt, and the utter failure to address climate change in a meaningful way, collectively stand as evil beacons on America's path to social failure, the loss of democracy, and violence.
We have slightly less than 5 per cent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners. We lead China, North Korea, you name it, in the warehousing of human beings. The Gulag has turned our police into thugs, it defines the promotion and careers of prosecutors and judges, and it destroys families and communities in a manner unmatched by any other country in the world. It is disgustingly biased racially, and once a man or woman, or child, is in its grasp it shapes the rest of their lives.
Is there no other way to run a prison system? Of course there is, and here is one example of how it can and should be done.
Sussex State Prison in Virginia. Credit: Bill Dickinson / Flickr
In the U.S., the nation with the largest prison population proportional to population in the world, the idea of rehabilitation long ago went from being a stated goal to a completely ignored concept. A study focusing on people released from prisons in 2005 reveals that they were arrested again in the following nine years at an astounding rate of 83%. But rather than give up on the 2.3 million primarily black and brown Americans who are incarcerated, the Bard Prison Initiative, founded in 2001, has taken a different approach.
The inspiring program, which provides people incarcerated in New York with the opportunity to take college-level classes and obtain degrees from Bard College, is the subject of a PBS documentary titled, “College Behind Bars.” Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer caught up with the film’s director, Lynn Novick, and Jule Hall, a graduate of the Bard Prison Initiative, in the latest episode of “Scheer Intelligence.”
Stephan: Okay, I'm going speak the truth that dare not say its name. Donald Trump is a psychopath and a sadist. He likes hurting people. He likes using his power to dominate, punish, and create stress and misery. It makes him feel powerful and assuages his personal cowardice. I think these facts, not partisanship but facts, are irrefutable. Here is a classic example of criminal Trump in action that proves my point.
Volunteers packing up boxes of food for after-school lunches at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank in Cleveland. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank worries that the new policy on assistance programs will move people out of the grocery line into the food pantry line. Credit: Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times
CLEVELAND — Next month, Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s second largest, will begin sending letters and fliers, making phone calls and hosting information fairs to alert struggling citizens of a change about to befall them: Come April, able-bodied adults without children may lose their food stamps if they do not find work fast.
A Trump administration rule change, long in the making, is about to become real, and by the administration’s own estimates, nearly 700,000 people across the country — 20,000 of them in Ohio, 3,000 alone in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County — will be dropped from the food-stamp rolls.
“That’s a fairly big hit for the county, for our population,” said Kevin Gowan, the administrator of Cuyahoga Job and Family Services, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly […]
Stephan: As I wrote in yesterday's SR, everything criminal Trump and his band of familiars do that involves money is in someway a grift to their personal benefit. Here is another example.
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, United States Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, delivers remarks prior the signing ceremony of the U.S. China Phase One Trade Agreement Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Official White House Image/Tia Dufour
Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstructing a congressional investigation into his attempt to blackmail a foreign country into aiding him in the 2020 presidential election. He is now the third president in American history to have earned that ignominious distinction.
Trump will not be convicted by the Republicans in the Senate for his crimes.
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"Cruelty is the point," why isn't that clear? You read a story like this, and what else could you conclude? I think we need to face the fact that the thinking of a large percentage of Americans is so distorted by disinformation, hate, and bias that they routinely vote and work against their own wellbeing because of some other consideration. White supremacy, male dominance, religious fanaticism, punishing the "others", whatever, is more important to them.
We are a sick country with a lot of sick people. Whenever I hear or read, "What about Obama...", "What about Hillary..." I know I am talking with or reading one of the sick ones, and I think we need to start talking about that.
Trump lying on the West Lawn Credit: NBC News
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to intensify its assault on Medicaid by granting certain states permission to convert federal funding for the program into block grants, a move critics slammed as a cruel and likely illegal attack on vulnerable people.
“In the same week President Trump said cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are on the table, we now learn that his administration is set to propose benefit-slashing block grants on Medicaid expansion.”
—Brad Woodhouse, Protect Our Care
Bruce Bartlett, an architect of former President Ronald Reagan’s right-wing economic agenda who left the GOP in 2006,
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"Cruelty is the point," why isn't that clear? You read a story like this, and what else could you conclude? I think we need to face the fact that the thinking of a large percentage of Americans is so distorted by disinformation, hate, and bias that they routinely vote and work against their own wellbeing because of some other consideration. White supremacy, male dominance, religious fanaticism, punishing the "others", whatever, is more important to them.
We are a sick country with a lot of sick people. Whenever I hear or read, "What about Obama...", "What about Hillary..." I know I am talking with or reading one of the sick ones, and I think we need to start talking about that.
