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Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat
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Posted on 02/12/2019 11:05:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat

Democrat 2020 hopeful is vegan because eating eggs 'didn't align with my spirit'

BY: Elizabeth Harrington Follow @LizWFB February 12, 2019 5:00 am

Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) said the planet "can't sustain" people eating meat, as the 2020 hopeful aims to become the first vegan president.

Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews earlier this month that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

While claiming he does not want to lecture Americans on their diets, Booker says Americans need to be nudged into fake cheese because the planet cannot sustain the "environmental impact" of the food industry.

"You see the planet earth moving towards what is the Standard American Diet," Booker said. "We've seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry."

"The tragic reality is this planet simply can't sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture because of environmental impact," he said. "It's just not possible."

Booker says the "devastating impact" of greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry is "just not practical."

"The numbers just don't add up," he said. "We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment."

Booker, who said his vegan "journey" began in 1992 when he became a vegetarian after reading Gandhi's biography, wants to make the "existing model" of the food industry "obsolete."

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1 posted on 02/12/2019 11:05:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Wanna bet that he does?


2 posted on 02/12/2019 11:06:49 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ever notice that companies making vegan foods from soybeans try to make them taste like MEAT?


4 posted on 02/12/2019 11:08:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sub-Driver
Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat

More craziness from the "Green new Deal" get rid of Farting Cows and Airplanes people.

LOL

5 posted on 02/12/2019 11:09:13 AM PST by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Booker is such a joke


6 posted on 02/12/2019 11:09:14 AM PST by Conserv
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To: Sub-Driver

Booker is such a joke


7 posted on 02/12/2019 11:09:15 AM PST by Conserv
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To: Sub-Driver

Is this a euphemism from Cory?


8 posted on 02/12/2019 11:09:44 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Sub-Driver
after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

Decipher the code. It's a confession.

9 posted on 02/12/2019 11:10:05 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Screw these kooks.


10 posted on 02/12/2019 11:10:07 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If he has increased his legume intake, then he truly is Farticus...


11 posted on 02/12/2019 11:10:08 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Corey likes the bone.


12 posted on 02/12/2019 11:10:37 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Sub-Driver

Given Bookers reputation he should be more careful with his words.


13 posted on 02/12/2019 11:10:47 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Army Air Corps

Cory needs to ponder this deep philosophical question:

If the Good Lord hadn’t intended for us to eat animals, then why did He make them out of meat?


14 posted on 02/12/2019 11:11:17 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Doogle

Bingo


15 posted on 02/12/2019 11:11:33 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year)
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To: Sub-Driver

‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People like Cory Booker.

There. Fixed it.


16 posted on 02/12/2019 11:12:39 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Sub-Driver

The democrats are dunces as well as frauds and fanatics. He says it’s “not possible” to continue feeding billions of people with “industrial” meat. But quite obviously it IS POSSIBLE.


17 posted on 02/12/2019 11:12:45 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Doogle

Cory eats meat in bathrooms....


Well....that’s DIFFERENT!! [/s]


18 posted on 02/12/2019 11:13:19 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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19 posted on 02/12/2019 11:14:14 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Exactly. Isn’t he well known to choke down a sausage from time to time?


20 posted on 02/12/2019 11:14:34 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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