Damn liberals always telling you what to do.
Conservatives just make it prohibitively expensive to do what you want to do.
Damn liberals always telling you what to do.
Conservatives just make it prohibitively expensive to do what you want to do.
This administration is going to accidentally encourage a ton of earth friendly behavior. Won’t offset the evil being done, but it’s kind of funny.
Bread and water for you. And you'll like it!
If food is too expensive, don't eat.
-Republicans
Famine makes ecconomic sense
-Also Republicans
Why aren't the plebians having kids? We need more wage slaves! Maybe outlawing abortion is the solution.
-Republicans, again
I was in an argument just yesterday on the "not having enough kids" subject where people were insisting that younger generations are choosing to live in "expensive places" and that they should move to "cheaper places" so they can start families. As if the idea of abandoning their lives, careers and friends to go live out in the boonies in order to provide a bare-minimum QoL for their family is going to change any dual-income-no-kids couples' minds.
Also "Eggs are too expensive, I will bring the prices down on day one"
Is Trump about to give the same inadvertent boost to plant-based diets and the environment as he did for renewables?
He's so far right that he's popping out on the left like in Kid Icarus. Did you hear about those $5k socialism checks? EVs are getting adopted en masse. Now reducing beef in diets? What's next, common sense gun control? Fully legalized cannabis? Trust busting?
It's too bad he's holding up gigantic projects like wind and solar. Also, many subsidies for EV and rooftop solar disappeared. So, yeah, if he brought that back, demand might shoot way up thanks to the failed policies of donnie.
Yet when Michelle Obama merely suggested that Americans eat better and exercise, the pedo GOP blew a gasket.
Good message, wrong reasoning.
Ecologists have been telling people [from rich countries] to minimize beef consumption or drop it altogether for years, but not because of its price tag.
not because of its price tag
I get what you mean, and agree, but want to point out that at least in a sense, it is because of the price tag: the cost to the environment and to others, in the form of water use, land use, carbon and methane emissions, etc. Internalizing those external costs would make beef cost more money at the point of sale.
LOL, she was soooo close for a moment, I guess. She's still adhering to protein mythologies, it seems. It's 2026. Do people still not know?
But I find it funny that the cons clutched their pearls so hard over Michelle suggesting kids get more exercise and eat vegetables. And now it's a con that is depriving them of beef and telling them to make do.
I thought the liberals were going to make conservative eat bugs and live in a shoebox and own nothing?
They are hypocrites, they don't care and neither does the electorate. They would have dragged her regardless of what she did or said. Remember they were making a commotion about a fucking tan suit.
“But if it is too expensive — unlike fuel, Benny — you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs."
"Let them eat salmon." LOL.
So there are alternative proteins. That's a free market situation. But there is no alternative to the petro-state. Doing less driving is communism.
let them eat cake
And they said the democrats wanted to take away hamburgers.
Got that Marie Antoinette energy.
It is kinda nice that Impossible Steak Bites now costs less per unit of mass than beef does. Going vegetarian starting to make more sense every day...
That's good to hear. Given all the inputs into things like beef, plant-based should almost always be cheaper. I'm still irritated when something vegetarian/vegan on the menu is as expensive or even more expensive than the omnivore edition.
Few things highlight the deep distortions that actual social engineering does to the marketplace as much as that.
Of course, buying certain ingredients and making plant-based yourself can often be far cheaper than eating out.
lol
GOP: "we support farmers!!!!"
also GOP: "oh, beef too much? buy something else"
Try our Argentinian mystery meat! 30% off!
Let them eat pork.
Capitalism will make vegans of us yet.
I was gonna say sarcastically: "this will go down well with the maga base". But most of them will never hear it. And most of those who do will just scream "FAKE NEWS! LIBERAL HOAX!" And the few who don't do that will tie themselves in mental gymnastics knots.
You forgot blaming Biden/Obama/Clinton for high prices they find in the store.
Considering that beef is a potential carcinogen, it's actually good advice. Plus, cattle are a massive producer of methane, which is far worse for global warming than CO2
Not to mention screw worms.
Close enough... get the guillotines.
Yeah bitch, we about to switch from beef to Eat the Rich.
So maybe Trump is actually caring about climate change.
Not only has he lowered the CO2 emissions, through the closure of the straight of Hormuz. Gives electric cars a big boost and now he turns people away from meat to a plant based diet.
Wonder what is next on his agenda to save the planet. Keep on going.
Okay. I mean the farmers might have something to say about it, but sure thing on my end. I love beef, but I ain't married to it for the fuck it all prices it's currently going for.
I actually agree. Eat less beef and more vegetarian meals. I ate beef today but I also had vegetarian meals 4 days in the last week
"Let them eat re-constituted soy!" (I've heard that before, but in a different language).
Thanks, Trump! The animals thank you, too!
-- A vegan
Imagine humans revolting because they’re pissed they don’t have the luxury of supporting ongoing genocide of living beings in the name of immediate gratification.
Wait, which message did conservative radio give my brainwashed family members to parrot?
"Eggs are too expensive, its the President's faukt." "Steak is too expensive, eat something else."
I need to know what to expect at Thanksgiving.
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