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When liberals called for gun control, conservatives rushed to gun stores and rifle clubs. When Democratic cities suggested banning plastic straws, right-wing Twitter personalities posed with straws to own the libs. Now, amid a liberal-driven call for vegetarianism, a wave of conservative media personalities are promoting all-meat diets.
Meat is poised to be the next proxy battleground in a left-right culture war.
Vegetarians skew left. Meat production, particularly beef, creates more greenhouse gases and requires more energy than vegetable farming, leading environmentalists (statistically a left-leaning set) to call for meat reduction. In response, an all-red meat “carnivore diet” is surging in popularity among conservatives; Fox News has done so many segments where an anchor debates a feminist vegetarian in front of a steak they’ve become formulaic; Ted Cruz wrapped bacon around the barrel of a gun to cook it, ostensibly to upset liberals.
InfoWars founder Alex Jones laid out the looming debate on a platter in August 2016 when, apparently unprompted, he […]
Corn-fed beef etc is certainly wasteful. As it becomes more and more difficult to grow row crops in the Midwest farmers will shift to grass-fed beef. Remember that before white people plowed it in the European style the Great Plains was grassland covered with giant herds of bison. It will be again.
Ditto-heads may just suicide themselves with heavy meat consumption, just add liquor and copious amounts of sugar and wave bye-bye.
Except though stupidity kills it often is not fast enough to snag them before they do their damage…