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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat
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 theyve 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 tweeted a picture of himself red-faced and glowering over a platter of uncooked sausages, steaks, and meat patties.
Celebrating Americana with some Red Meat, Jones tweeted, f-you Obama!
Why would then-President Barack Obama, a meat-eater, care about Alex Jones lunch? With the exception of the time Jones blamed a spicy bowl of chili for his memory loss during a court appearance, why would anybody care about Alex Jones lunch? The implication was clear: Obama and his ilk wanted to take away Americas meat, just like they were coming for guns and Confederate flags and all manner of totems beloved by conservatives who believe themselves besieged by the left.
And just as a set of too-online conservatives pose with plastic straws or carry automatic rifles in public with the hopes of upsetting liberals, some meat-eaters double down on their diets in response to vegetarianism.
We're also taking away your mom and apple pie. Lemonade originated in the Middle East, Egypt, and India. Same with Southern Sweet Tea. Muahahaha
Turbineguy
(37,285 posts)of reality when selling fear.
Voltaire2
(12,939 posts)It ain't going to change the reality that meat centric diets are really bad for your health and the health of the planet. We aren't going to ban meat. We will have to regulate green house gas emissions, and that is going to make meat diets more expensive.
Besides, the problem is self-correcting over the long term.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)some folks decided to just eat beef and nothing else. They claim all sorts of health benefits from it.
Voltaire2
(12,939 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,059 posts)Zoonart
(11,828 posts)hide your hamburgers........the vegetarians are coming!!!!!!!
Pathetic.
Initech
(100,029 posts)I will eat much better hamburgers thanks!
Thyla
(791 posts)I love meat but this is just dumb.
To be expected though.
Initech
(100,029 posts)demmiblue
(36,816 posts)that takes place on factory farms. In fact, they probably like it.
Alex Jones is going to stroke out one of these days. No further comment on that.
Initech
(100,029 posts)Have you seen pictures of him lately? That is an inhuman shade of red on his face. I guess that is what happens when your diet consists of nothing but overly sauced and over cooked meat.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Frank Luntz's Focus Groups crank out their Media Talking Points,nothing will change. There is so much money to be made in Hyping Right Wing talking points. Doubt me,listen closely to Radio and TV Commercial Ads. Listen and watch for what is called the "hook".
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,238 posts)We have to think these things through, folks. Can't just dump 'em in landfills after we confiscate them. These things have to be done delicately.
Are we also confiscating overalls ("over hauls" in the provincial slang) and dip (snuff, smokeless tobacco)?
Seriously, before the election of 2008, a couple of my neighbors informed me that Obama was secretly replacing shotgun shells with ones that the FBI could track and trace. Alex Jones is merely eccentric in such circles.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)people on ordinarily nice, apolitical decorating forums I visited were pledging to stock years of the old incandescent bulbs and never surrender.
Renew Deal
(81,844 posts)Since when was vegetarianism a left-right issue? One of the biggest RW nuts I know is a vegan.
lark
(23,059 posts)It'll just make them go away faster and for most of his followers that would be a net positive for the world.
2naSalit
(86,308 posts)maybe we will get lucky and most of them will die off from the various diseases that come with all that meat and mire, they'll think they are being raptured and we can try to clean up the planet... if there's anything salvageable by then.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Are also bad for health and so are any starchy carbs when eaten in excess especially with bad fats. But people who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet dont seem to know or to worry about the health effects of eating grains, if they eat them, which are not easily digestible and which have been linked to autoimmune disease.
Stinky The Clown
(67,757 posts)Fucking morons.
Maybe we should call for banning suicide?
NBachers
(17,080 posts)In response: "Have you taken the Shock Challenge?"