What is it with liberal outlets and their apparent virtue-signaling obsession with eliminating meat from our diets?
The New York Times published a wacky op-ed headlined “The End of Meat Is Here.”
In the sub-headline, author Jonathan Safran Foer grumbled that “If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.” [Emphasis added.]
Only leftists like Foer would know how to make that nonsensical connection.
Foer began his article with two leading questions: “Is any panic more primitive than the one prompted by the thought of empty grocery store shelves? Is any relief more primitive than the one provided by comfort food?”
Foer then inserted the liberal criticize President Donald Trump angle in order to bolster his already suspect thesis:
The combination of meat shortages and President Trump’s decision to order slaughterhouses open despite the protestations of endangered workers has inspired many Americans to consider just how essential meat is.
Pivoting off of the “[a]nimal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming” narrative, Foer later wrote that “We cannot protect our environment while continuing to eat meat regularly.” He said that this is a “banal truism.”
Of course, Foer needed to get some digs in at cows and their polluting burps:
Whether they become Whoppers or boutique grass-fed steaks, cows produce an enormous amount of greenhouse gas. If cows were a country, they would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.”
Foer decried how “We cannot claim to care about the humane treatment of animals while continuing to eat meat regularly.”
He used this to then dramatize animal rights abuses, such as how “Modern chickens have been so genetically modified that their very bodies have become prisons of pain even if we open their cages.”
Foer then played on fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: “We cannot protect against pandemics while continuing to eat meat regularly.”
Foer said later about his opinion piece posted in the Opinion section of The Times that “[t]hese are not my or anyone’s opinions, despite a tendency to publish this information in opinion sections.” [Emphasis added.]
Foer’s concluding remarks reeked of eco-utopianism:
With the horror of pandemic pressing from behind, and the new questioning of what is essential, we can now see the door that was always there. As in a dream where our homes have rooms unknown to our waking selves, we can sense there is a better way of eating, a life closer to our values.
On the other side is not something new, but something that calls from the past — a world in which farmers were not myths, tortured bodies were not food and the planet was not the bill at the end of the meal. One meal in front of the other, it’s time to cross the threshold. On the other side is home.
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So why should anyone ever trust a thing they print in this liberal rag its not printed the truth and covered up for Stalin and Castro as well as Mao
Presumably, when millions of Bison roamed the US plains, as nature dictated, the slaughter of them but the Settlers was a good thing? No more greenhouse farts? What is deeply questionable is widespread factory farming which divorces he animals involved from heir natural or open air environment and food, with questionably results on meat quality also. But meat is a central course of protein and other factors which vegan diet alone cannot supply. Also, when the comon man was too poor and peasant he could seldom afford meat and his lengevity suffered hugely from poor diet. There is also the question of farmers and their lives. Mankind is omnivorous. The reform should lie in husbandry and farming practice, and the USA lags behind with its vast scale intensive farming.
Time to use the NYT’s for whats meant to be Birdcage Lining its not worth reading this socialists rag anymore
Histories most evil vegans Genghis Khan,Adolph Hitler,Charles Manson,Pol Pot
“Green” is taught, not inherited.
” Foer was a “flamboyant” and sensitive child who, at the age of 8, was injured in a classroom chemical accident that resulted in “something like a nervous breakdown drawn out over about three years,” during which “he wanted nothing, except to be outside his own skin.”
This guy is a certified mentally challenged green moron. He should marry another climate idiot Greta Dumber. Can you imagine what kind of green imbeciles this couple would produce? Well , most likely they would kill their kids before birth to safe planet and eliminate carbon print.
This is great. These idiots can claim all kinds of nonsense, but it is not until they start taking away the average Joe’s bbq steak and chicken that it becomes easy to dismiss them as the crackpots that they are.
The New York Pravda(Times) sounds like PETA telling us we all must go Vegan over this Global Warming/Climate Change poppycock not surprised this is the same liberal rag that wants up to surrender our Guns the NRA is right about the New York Pravda this liberal rag is a waste of Freedom of the Press,all those trees to make the paper and all that fossil fuels to make the ink to continue to print this leftists rag
Left or Right, it’s dog eat dog.
Foer seems inspired by TS Eliot.
These lunatics do not understand that we can NOT change the climate.
But if he wants to stop eating meat, healthy nutritious meat, and start eating plants like cattle. Please do so, go live on a farm and eat grass.