Opinion | There's a reason the GOP's beef ban conspiracy won't go away

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Opinion | There's a reason the GOP's beef ban conspiracy won't go away
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Opinion | Emily Contois: President Biden isn't taking away America's hamburgers. Here's why Republicans say he might. - NBCNewsTHINK

. Last month, a friend sent me a photo of a small meat shop in Brooklyn. Its front window was once plastered with neon pink and orange posters advertising ham, turkey breast and top round by the pound. Now, a stock image of a giant, billowing American flag dresses that same window, flanked at the bottom by a banner depicting cuts of raw, red meat, as another banner at the top proclaims, “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.

Meat is, and long has been, one of America’s fiercest political battlegrounds. But these fights have taken on a new tenor recently. This question of meaty liberty became a topic of viral discussion recently — at least in some corners of the internet — as outrage erupted overthat President Joe Biden’s climate plan demanded that Americans drastically reduce the amount of meat they eat. Personal food consumption isn’t currently part of Biden’s eco-policy, but nonetheless conservative warnings that the left is coming for your meat have steadily gained ground over the last couple of years.

Take, for example, the role eating meat, or not, played in the 2020 presidential campaign. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii both campaigned as the nation’s first vocally vegan presidential candidates. This didn’t sit well with some conservatives. A Fox News article decreed, “

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