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Republicans are the real threat to hamburgers, not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

GOP climate inaction will drive megadroughts that make beef a scarce commodity.

JOE ROMMMAR 8, 2019, 8:00 AM

CLIMATE CHANGE-FUELED DROUGHTS ARE A MUCH BIGGER THREAT TO CATTLE THAN THE GREEN NEW DEAL.

One of the most common Republican attack lines since the Green New Deal resolution was introduced last month is that Democrats, namely Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), “want to take away your hamburgers.”

In the past week, Republican House members have staged a press conference during which they ate hamburgers in front of the U.S. Capitol. Republican senators have quipped, “maybe the chicken caucus is in favor of getting rid of cows.” And right-wing media outlets have run pun-filled headlines, like the Washington Times,’ “Sizzling anti-burger narrative puts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal in a pickle.”

But the truth is, the real threat to hamburgers — and to food supplies in general — is Republican inaction on climate change.

The overheated, drought-riddled world their policies are driving us toward will be devastating to cattle. Red meat will become a scarce commodity — as it did during the severe drought in Texas earlier this decade.

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On Thursday, devout meat-eaters from across the country will gather in Boulder, Colorado for what’s billed as the nation’s first-ever “Carnivore Conference.”Devotees are more than just Ron Swanson-style meat fanatics. The carnivore diet, popularized in recent years by the alt-right and bitcoin enthusiasts, requires eating only animal products, and nothing else. Some enthusiasts even avoid high-carb animal products like milk and yogurt.

While the Carnivore Conference is one of the first large-scale gatherings of meat fanatics, the movement has flourished online for years. That’s largely due to a few high-profile meatheads, including controversial dark-web psychologist Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila (who claims she’s living on a diet of just beef and water), and former orthopedic surgeon Shawn Baker. Both Mikhaila and Baker are slated to speak at the conference.