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| 2018-01-30 |
| h/t Instapundit [VictoryGirlsBlog] This is from the "Things that sound dirty, but aren’t" file. I’m talking about real meat and enviro-nazis’ real attempts to stop us from eating and enjoying our favorite foods. Excise taxes on beef, pork, and chicken could be the next big thing in a state and local tax environment that’s already comfortable with "sin tax" regimes aimed at cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and gambling and is adapting quickly to special levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, greenhouse gases, and marijuana. ...This is not the first time we’ve seen psychotic, state-worshiping enviro-wackos push a tax on meat. It will give them a double prize: force everyone to conform to their way of life, and give their government gods extra revenue. ...Also, note PETA’s sneaky attempts at creating the illusion that people support their insane tax on meat. There are no legislative proposals on any government level to impose a tax on your favorite foods. For now, your barbecue chicken, your prime rib, your pork chops, and your bacon cheeseburgers are safe from greedy statists, but PETA is working hard to advance the deception that not only is broad, popular support for vegetarianism, veganism, and their way of life is on the rise, but that a bigger percent of Americans now wants to force their fellow citizens to live like they do. And while it’s true there are more Americans today lowering their meat intake, that number is still tiny (and by the way, since the 2017 study was commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group ‐ an organization with an obvious agenda ‐ I have doubts that their estimate of 3.8 percent of Americans identifying either vegetarian or vegan are in any way accurate). ...But it’s not just the nutjobs at PETA pushing this potential economic disaster, it’s also those statist ass weasels at the United Nations, who want to tax meat until it’s too expensive to eat, forcing the farming and agriculture industry into abject poverty. Additionally, while the World Health Organization derps about red meat being "probably" carcinogenic, which means they don’t know but are putting it out there anyway as a means of maligning an entire industry, beef and other meats are good sources of protein, iron, zinc, and other vitamins, and their negative effects are far from established science, especially if you stick to lean meats low in saturated fats. And they both hide behind "environmentalism" to advance these odious policies. Environmentalism is simply communism in green clothing ‐ a watermelon, green on the outside and red on the inside ‐ which uses propaganda techniques similar to the former USSR to advance its odious, anti-human policies. Stay vigilant and have a steak, my friends, before they come for it. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom - but, eventually, you get tired. Which is perfectly OK if you get tired of trying to be reasonable and civilized, and deal with the pests in the only way they understand. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 I hear they taste nutty. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-01-30 20:36 |
| #3 Save a cow. Eat an environazi. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-30 18:03 |
| #2 PETA doesn't like me. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2018-01-30 09:52 |
| #1 It's amazing in a democracy how much power and influence small special interest groups have over the vast majority. Maybe its not a democracy or a republic. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-30 07:00 |
