Posted on 09/29/2024 12:49:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
National Public Radio knows who is driving climate change as an existential threat: men who eat meat. And they found the origins of the current crisis in a 2006 television ad for Burger KIng that heralded the fast food chain and its appetite-satisfying whopper as a source of masculine culinary delight totally unlike the small portions of vegetarian food offered by places where women like to frequent.
That ad began running when Malcolm Regisford, whom NPR interviewed for the story, was 10 years old, Regisford saw this commercial often in between his cartoons. “Beef is marketed to men — steaks and hefty burgers — like, ‘that's what a man's supposed to eat,’” he told NPR. Regisford kept hearing these messages all through middle and high school and into college, where he played Division 1 basketball. “It’s thought that animal products yield a certain sense of strength,” he told the taxpayer-funded media outlet. “Some form of masculinity.”
NPR found others to confirm that eating beef is a man thing to do and even statistics prove it, according to Diego Rose, nutrition program director at Tulane University. “Whenever we've looked at the question of gender, we've seen that,” Rose told the outlet. “Men eat greater amounts of beef than women.”
That might be fine, but according to NPR, all the beef eating is promoting more climate change, because, as “scientists say,” beef is worse than any other food when it comes to global warming. Cattle require grazing land that must denuded of its trees. And of course, cows are constantly flatulating and that produces “powerful greenhouse gas emissions” that produce climate change. Climate change alarmists also blame human breathing for emissions.
“If you want to reduce emissions, it's all about the beef,” Tim Searchinger, senior research scholar at Princeton University and technical director of the agriculture and forestry program at the World Resources Institute, told NPR.
In lieu of beef, some researchers suggest having chicken instead, as this can “cut a person’s daily dietary carbon footprint by about half,” according to NPR. But ultimately, for those who link beef and climate change, it is also about making beef less appealing to men.
"Messaging to men about beef absolutely matters," Jan Dutkiewicz, professor of political science at the Pratt Institute, told NPR. "If there's a large portion of men out there who are being programmed to not just eat more meat, but to be completely resistant to any messages about meat reduction," he says, "that's a real problem.”
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris has hired an aide who believes other useful ways of fighting climate change are not having children and not using gas stoves. Harris herself has also suggested the thought of having children can induce “climate anxiety” in couples.
I’ll be in Holodeck three.....
“If you want to reduce emissions, it’s all about beef.”
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Beef. Its whats for dinner.
As I read this, I’m enjoying my locally famous “LittleBillyInfidel Chili” with ground beef and sausage. Recipe available! Yummmmeeee!
STFU you fools. Beef helps build Testosterone. But then you wouldn’t want that since you’re all girly-boys.
>> If not, you lose
Maybe.
It’ll be costly (in human life) to eradicate beef cattle in Texas. I predict they’ll quit before they succeed.
The beef doesn’t seem to have, uh, harmed Ms. Sheperd. ;-)
Phooey! Beef is good!
If the NPR folks want to eat bugs, they can go right ahead if they are not allergic.
I gave up on NPR in 2001. I do occasionally watch PBS. But the PBS spacial on the election omitted nearly everything about Trump’s term in office except the pandemic. And they forgot to mention kamala’s cackling, word salad, and low iQ, etc.
PBS is no longer a class act! Phooey again!
I just had a nice New York strip for lunch. I have one more left out of the package of three I bought the other day. I’m thinking about eating the last one for supper after this article. The Angus cow the steak came from must have had a lot of gas. His meat was so tender and tasty.
I hope you have back-up power to run those freezers.
Be a shame to lose all that food to a power outage.🤔
Now more beefing boys!
Do you get it now? Do you see where this is leading?
Today it's cows. Tomorrow it's you.
One of the John Wayne Westerns Red River (1948) had this praise of providing beef for Americans:
Thomas Dunson : Give me ten years, and I’ll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas. The big house will be down by the river, and the corrals and the barns behind it. It’ll be a good place to live in. Ten years and I’ll have the Red River D on more cattle than you’ve looked at anywhere.
I’ll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make ‘em strong, make ‘em grow. But it takes work, and it takes sweat, and it takes time, lots of time. It takes years.
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Notice Chinese and Thai food, as well as Mexican and others, have a little protein and then lots of filler, starch and vegetables or legumes to make up for the lack.
Back in the late 1800’s and into the early 1900’s, beef was considered food for ‘poor people’. Chicken was the preferred meat of the wealthy, thus the campaign slogan “Two chickens in every pot!”.............
I Prefer mine pink on the inside..............
Maybe should have stuck with a salad fork.
(No attacks, please. Big beef fan here.)
My wife does too................
Generac
Apparently they don’t have anyone at NPR without serious brain damage.
Their public funding should have been cut of a very long time ago. That should be a priority for President Trump and whomever is the next republican speaker. I hope it isn’t Johnson. He’s a major disappointment.
I have been around vegetarians, most of them women
they eat stuff like
Apples, Beans/lentils, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce, Milk and milk products, Onions, Whole-grains etc.
and peta wants to talk about man gas ?
I fart in their general direction.
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