We need to eat less meat. Should the government step in?

WAPO ^ | July 21, 2016 | Laura Wellesley

[rockrr]

That only counts if you’re contemplating murdering your unborn child.

[BenLurkin]

Who said it?

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[lee martell]

Michelle Obama gives this report two thumbs up!

[Jim W N]

The unconstitutional portion of the $4 federal government (80%+) is our ENEMY and MUST be destroyed.

[oh8eleven]

Great picture. That's exactly how I remember my late FIL - plaid shorts, strange socks - except his specialty was BBQ chicken.
Oh to be able to relive those days.

[TomGuy]

unsustainable

A couple of months ago, I went to my local Aldi's grocery store. It was a Monday morning. I knew from previous experience that was probably a mistake.

Inside, boxed and canned goods lined the shelves. When I got to the fresh produce, most of the section was completely empty. I walked around to the fresh meats section. It too was empty. Luckily, I managed to scrounge most of what I wanted to buy. I didn't want to wait around for them to restock the areas.

I laughed about it, as I walked around and thought 'I'm in Venezuela!'

My Aldi's is always slow about restocking on Monday mornings and I usually avoid shopping then.

[PROCON]

Oh, becoming like Venezuela is every American liberals dream.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Any one notice that at an earlier time it was sugary foods, soft drinks that caused the horrors. Now it is meat that causes the listed horrors.

I tend to think that there is an organized attack upon meat for the reason that exported meat brings in much higher profits hence tax dollars. People learned from the successful attack upon cigarettes; i.e. demonize then profitize. Look at the tax rate on cigarettes. A good government would ban cigarettes if they are as bad as stated. Governments implicitly declare their true purpose by their tax rates.

I'll prophesy that we are going to witness a big anti meat "Boom!" They will turn people against meat making it easier to explain the coming meat shortages.

[Wiser now]

My doctor’s prescription for weight loss is: NO bread, NO potatoes, NO pasta, and NO rice.
I am supposed to eat three servings of fruit, 7 servings of vegetables, and protein! No restrictions on my protein of choice other than it be as lean as possible.

The governmental push to force us all to become vegans has begun.

[JimRed]

Who eats what is none of government’s darned business, unless they are buying. And they don’t seem to mind the EBT brigade feasting on steak.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Tofu-sucking liberal weenie!

The only reason I don't eat more meat is because I can't afford it!
Chicken and tuna fish is the mainstay these days.

I suppose those will be your next targets, eh Weenie?

[Axenolith]

“Excessive meat-eating is partly responsible for an epidemic of obesity”

Bulls***!

[NorthMountain]

Meat consumption in the United States — and across much of the Western world — has reached a level that is unsustainable

Baloney ...

And FUWP.

[FreedomPoster]

Government-employee-sourced Soylent Green?

No thanks!

;-P

[HarleyLady27]

WE don't NEED government to tell us how many sheets of T.P to use, we don't NEED government to tell us when to have sex, we don't NEED government to tell us when we can go outside, we don't NEED government to tell us anything...

THEY, government, have forgotten that they WORK FOR US, WE tell THEM what to do, HOW to do it, and WHEN and WHAT they will be paid...

WE will buy the food WE want to eat, WE will raise in OUR gardens what WE want to plant, WE will have the cows WE want as our milk and meat, WE will have the chickens that WE want for OUR eggs and meat to eat...

YOUR time, government officials are almost over, so take your boxes and clean out your offices that WE provide for you to sit in to run OUR business and go sit on the gutter, that is where you all belong...

[Col Freeper]

Yep, as you have already suspected, Laura Wellesley is a certified Environmental, Climate Change and Globalist "expert" (i.e. Wacko):

Wacko Wellesley

Looney Laura

[Larry Lucido]

Yes. The government should force feed tofu to the author.

[DFG]

Give me bacon or give me death! (apology to Patrick Henry)

[Trillian]

They promote homosexuality.. They know nothing about healthy.

[Uversabound]

I have lost 80 pounds since 2010 and maintained it by being low carb during the week, allowing a treat like scoop of ice cream or a trip to the pizza restaurant on the weekend.

But even on the weekend I cannot go off the deep end.

Not atkins either.....

I am an over eater and always will be. But this life style change has helped a lot.

As far as the govt they can go to asshat.

Now that is Freeper!! My freepers.....xo