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IronLionZion

(45,163 posts)
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:23 PM Mar 2019

Why Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-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 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 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 America’s 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
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Why Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat (Original Post) IronLionZion Mar 2019 OP
They have to stay ahead Turbineguy Mar 2019 #1
They can stuff all the hamberders they want into their guts. Voltaire2 Mar 2019 #2
Did you see the carnivore diet? IronLionZion Mar 2019 #5
Like I said, the problem is self correcting. Voltaire2 Mar 2019 #8
+1000 Although it might take quite some time for that self-correction to happen. alwaysinasnit Mar 2019 #10
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!! Zoonart Mar 2019 #3
They can have their Big Macs and Whoppers. Initech Mar 2019 #12
This is dumb. Thyla Mar 2019 #4
They are aware we had presidents before Obama, right? Initech Mar 2019 #6
Because they don't care about climate change and are totally fine with the suffering... demmiblue Mar 2019 #7
He looks like a walking heart attack waiting to happen. Initech Mar 2019 #11
Well,as long as Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #9
where will we stockpile the guns, cattle, hogs, and pickup trucks? Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #13
Reminds me of the rage over light bulbs. Many Hortensis Mar 2019 #14
Where is the "liberal-driven call for vegetarianism" and why wasn't I informed? Renew Deal Mar 2019 #15
Good, let them eat meat with all the fat and forego veggies. lark Mar 2019 #16
Fat, hormones and antibiotics... 2naSalit Mar 2019 #17
grains Meowmee Mar 2019 #18
As an omnivore who eats meat, I wish them high cholesterol and colon cancer Stinky The Clown Mar 2019 #19
Maybe we uber-libs can start promoting "Don't touch live electric wires" safety messages. NBachers Mar 2019 #20

Voltaire2

(12,511 posts)
2. They can stuff all the hamberders they want into their guts.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:28 PM
Mar 2019

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

(45,163 posts)
5. Did you see the carnivore diet?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:32 PM
Mar 2019

some folks decided to just eat beef and nothing else. They claim all sorts of health benefits from it.

demmiblue

(36,712 posts)
7. Because they don't care about climate change and are totally fine with the suffering...
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:34 PM
Mar 2019

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

(99,881 posts)
11. He looks like a walking heart attack waiting to happen.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:50 PM
Mar 2019

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)
9. Well,as long as
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:40 PM
Mar 2019

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

(32,891 posts)
13. where will we stockpile the guns, cattle, hogs, and pickup trucks?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:54 PM
Mar 2019

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)
14. Reminds me of the rage over light bulbs. Many
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 03:55 PM
Mar 2019

people on ordinarily nice, apolitical decorating forums I visited were pledging to stock years of the old incandescent bulbs and never surrender.

Renew Deal

(81,774 posts)
15. Where is the "liberal-driven call for vegetarianism" and why wasn't I informed?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 04:04 PM
Mar 2019

Since when was vegetarianism a left-right issue? One of the biggest RW nuts I know is a vegan.

lark

(22,941 posts)
16. Good, let them eat meat with all the fat and forego veggies.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 04:12 PM
Mar 2019

It'll just make them go away faster and for most of his followers that would be a net positive for the world.

2naSalit

(85,638 posts)
17. Fat, hormones and antibiotics...
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 04:26 PM
Mar 2019

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)
18. grains
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 04:52 PM
Mar 2019

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 don’t 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

(67,623 posts)
19. As an omnivore who eats meat, I wish them high cholesterol and colon cancer
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:28 PM
Mar 2019

Fucking morons.

Maybe we should call for banning suicide?

NBachers

(16,964 posts)
20. Maybe we uber-libs can start promoting "Don't touch live electric wires" safety messages.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:33 PM
Mar 2019

In response: "Have you taken the Shock Challenge?"

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