DEMOCRATS ARE NOT TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR HAMBURGERS

[Judi Lynn]

The Green New Deal's advocates may not be coming down on meat, but if they did, they wouldn't be the first.

EMILY MOON 3 HOURS AGO

This month, conservatives coined a new rallying cry: Democrats want to take away your hamburgers. While untrue, reports say the messaging has had its desired effect, painting liberals as the enemy of the people (the meat-eating people.)

The controversy escalated this week when Republicans mocked the Green New Deal in several press conferences, amid in-fighting over the vote planned for later this year, according to the Hill. "If this goes through, this will be outlawed," Representative Rob Bishop (R-Utah) said on Wednesday, before biting into a hamburger, the Washington Post reports.

In reality, eliminating meat is not part of the Democratic platform—although reining in big polluters (like the agriculture industry) is. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, a non-binding resolution introduced last month, aims to "achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions," according to the resolution NPR published.

The deal's supporters have offered many ways to accomplish this goal: investing in renewable energy, expanding high-speed rail and other transportation systems, guaranteeing jobs and health care for all Americans—and yes, some Democrats believe addressing "factory farming" could be one of them. As far as the GND goes, the resolution calls for the government to work "collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the [United States] to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector as much as is technologically feasible, including by supporting family farming."

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https://psmag.com/news/democrats-are-not-trying-to-take-away-your-hamburgers

[dalton99a]

1. After the hamburgers, they'll take away toilet paper

and force everyone to use banana leaves

[SoCalNative]

2. But will they take away

their hamberders?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Hope they will, at least, leave the covfefe. n/t

[doc03]

3. Another thing I hear from Faux watchers is

the GND will outlaw airplanes.

[rampartc]

4. and tear fown every home and building in america to rebuild as energu efficoent.

[kurtcagle]

5. We'll replace their hamburgers ...

with Soylent Green.

[Toorich]

6. First they came for guns....

...and I did not speak out, because I hid my guns.
Then they came for pickup trucks and I did not speak out, because I own a Hummer.
Then they came for hamburgers and I did not speak out, because I prefer foot long chili-cheese dogs.
But by God, enough is enough. When they come for my beer and Faux Nuz, the fight is on!