For days, the American right has been on high alert: Joe Biden is coming for their meat.
After the English tabloid The Daily Mail cited “recent studies” to claim that the Biden administration would limit red meat consumption to one hamburger a month, conservatives went wild. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that he had probably eaten four pounds of meat—the yearly allowed figure, per The Daily Mail—just the day before. (If half a pound usually constitutes a single serving of meat, that translates to about eight meals’ worth of meat.)
Fox News anchor John Roberts, ostensibly a part of the network’s “news” side, told viewers, “Say goodbye to your burgers if you want to sign up for the climate agenda. That’s the finding of one study.” Fox Business host Charles Payne compared the plan to Soylent Green, in which the titular food is made of human flesh. And countless right-wingers took to Twitter to post giant, overcooked slabs of meat that would soon be giving them indigestion—all to own the libs.
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