{"id":286919,"date":"2021-06-29T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-lefts-stupid-politicized-war-against-meat\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T00:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:16:35","slug":"the-lefts-stupid-politicized-war-against-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-lefts-stupid-politicized-war-against-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"#The left\u2019s stupid, politicized war against meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The left\u2019s stupid, politicized war against meat<\/strong>”
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There are three reasons why limiting your consumption of red\u00a0meat\u00a0is a good thing: It\u2019s better for you, it\u2019s better for animals, and it\u2019s\u00a0better for the environment. Those are all incontrovertible facts.<\/p>\n

Red\u00a0meat is also delicious. It\u2019s a part of our\u00a0heritage, a staple of our holiday meals and a relatively\u00a0inexpensive source of protein for all Americans.<\/p>\n

These two sets of facts aren\u2019t at odds with one another. They\u00a0comprise the two sides of a debate Americans should be having, with plenty of room for compromise. But that isn\u2019t how our\u00a0country works anymore, because absolutism rules the day, and its\u00a0purveyors seek total conquest.<\/p>\n

Only about 2 percent of the nation\u00a0identifies\u00a0as vegetarian, and only 1\u00a0in 4 of those Americans is vegan. Yet somehow\u00a0meat\u00a0consumption is\u00a0becoming another bitter political wedge threatening to further\u00a0widen our impassable divide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A small but highly influential contingent of liberal extremists in our media<\/a> has fired the opening salvos. The odds against this cohort may app<\/a>ear\u00a0insurmountable, but their strategy is tried and true,\u00a0and they\u2019re laying\u00a0the groundwork.<\/p>\n

A year ago, The New York Times ran an\u00a0opinion\u00a0column headlined \u201cThe End of\u00a0Meat\u00a0Is Here<\/a>\u201d The author ridiculously equated meat consumption with\u00a0racism. The majority of meat-industry workers were people of color getting exposed to COVID. Ipso facto,\u00a0the column claimed, burgers are bigotry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, this April, the popular food Web site Epicurious announced it would no\u00a0longer feature\u00a0beef\u00a0in any new recipes, articles or news<\/a>letters.\u00a0Editors assured the outlet\u2019s fans this was not some vendetta against\u00a0people who eat cows. \u201cWe think of this decision as not anti-beef, but\u00a0rather pro-planet,\u201d they\u00a0explained<\/a>. \u201cOur shift is solely about\u00a0sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world\u2019s worst\u00a0climate offenders.\u201d Meat, after all, accounts for 14.5 percent of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t talk about the health benefits of eating less\u00a0meat\u00a0or the\u00a0cruelty of industrialized production much anymore because those\u00a0haven\u2019t moved the needle. Instead, anti-meaters associate your dinnertime staples\u00a0with hot-button issues because it shifts the\u00a0conflict from\u00a0herbivores\u00a0against omnivores to left against right,\u00a0urbane against deplorable, educated against working class. This improves their odds significantly.<\/p>\n

The tactic both scares and shames the left\u2019s own side and vilifies the opposition.\u00a0The term\u00a0\u201ccarnist\u201d is already a thing. They have to create a label, and it needs\u00a0to evoke evil. Sexist, fascist, racist . . . carnist. Perfect. It\u2019s exactly\u00a0what they did with climate\u00a0change. They affixed the word \u201cdenier\u201d to\u00a0anyone who questions the severity of, or proposed remedies for, our\u00a0environmental challenges, disgracefully\u00a0linking perfectly rational critics with Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n

Of course, only a total imbecile thinks eating\u00a0beef\u00a0is racist, and while\u00a0beef\u00a0production does produce greenhouse gases, the 14.5 percent contribution represents all <\/em>meat and <\/em>dairy for the\u00a0entire<\/em>\u00a0globe. America\u2019s\u00a0beef\u00a0production\u00a0alone is far less impactful.<\/p>\n

The really sad part is that all the misdirection, hyperbole and\u00a0exaggeration is hurting the very causes about which liberals claim to\u00a0care so passionately. We\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0polluting this planet. The mass industrialized\u00a0production of\u00a0meat\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0cruel and inhumane, and it\u2019s easy to see why\u00a0anyone who bears witness finds it difficult to partake in its proceeds.\u00a0But pitting Americans against one another by capitalizing on our\u00a0existential fears and political differences leaves both sides unwilling\u00a0to compromise.<\/p>\n

The consumption of red\u00a0meat\u00a0has been steadily climbing for\u00a0decades \u2014 until last year that is, when the pounds\u00a0eaten<\/a>\u00a0per capita dropped from 111.9 to 111.4 in the United States. This reduction is most likely\u00a0due to advances in plant-based\u00a0meat\u00a0substitutes. No, they aren\u2019t\u00a0perfect. Thus far, it\u2019s impossible to make an Impossible Steak, and\u00a0Beyond Brisket is beyond the\u00a0capability of franken-meat\u00a0scientists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But we\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0moving in the right direction now and could continue\u00a0moving forward if only progress were good enough for progressives.\u00a0They could singlehandedly offset the methane emissions of all the cattle in Texas if they would simply stop spreading so much bull.<\/p>\n

Gary Taustine is a writer in New York.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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