President Joe Biden’s plan to slash greenhouse emissions came under attack by Donald Trump Jr, GOP reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and many other MAGA supporters after the Daily Mail ran a story on theoretical ways the policy “could” slash meat consumption among Americans.
The Daily Mail reported that the US president’s climate plan “could limit” the consumption of burgers to just one a month.
The Daily Mail ran an infographic suggesting that in order to meet Biden’s target of slashing greenhouse emissions to half by 2030, Americans might have to “cut 90 percent of red meat out of diet” and “eat only 4lbs a year”. The report also claim that the president’s climate plan “could limit” the consumption of burgers to just one a month.
However, at no point in his speech on 22 April during the “Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate” did the president announce any attempt to impose a curb on red meat consumption.
Tweeting the speculative argument as a proposal by the president, Donald Trump Jr tweeted: “I’m pretty sure I ate 4 pounds of red meat yesterday. That’s going to be a hard NO from me.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert also took to Twitter, writing: “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90 percent of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn’t Joe stay out of my kitchen?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lambasted the hypothetical proposal. “The Hamburglar. ‘No burgers for thee, but just for me’,” she wrote.
Several social media users took to Twitter to slam the conclusions drawn both by the Republicans and the paper.
“In children’s terms, the study found that if people reduce meat-eating by a lot, emissions would fall a lot. Daily Mail was like…Biden wants to cut emissions by a lot. Therefore, he’ll force people to reduce meat-eating by the same amount this random study looked at,” wrote CNN journalist Daniel Dale as he shared the screengrabs of the January 2020 study by the University of Michigan.
“This is a complete lie and I’ve seen it no less than five times this morning already. The Biden plan includes no such thing,” said another user. “If you care to have a taxonomy of what happened, Biden announced a goal to cut emissions by 2030. It didn’t include anything about how Americans’ consumption would change, so the Daily Mail more or less made some things up and threw them in an infographic.”
This stuff is completely imaginary. Biden has not proposed any limit on Americans’ meat consumption.
What happened: 1) The Daily Mail ran an article that dishonestly connected Biden’s climate plan with a not-at-all-about-Biden study. 2) Others on the right just ran with this. pic.twitter.com/VRB52TPmUj
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 25, 2021
There is no evidence of Joe Biden wanting to limit meat consumption
— Noble Prize in Sarcasm (@rewegreatyet) April 25, 2021
Again, this is absolute nonsense based on nothing at all Biden did or said. But in certain circles, no explanation is needed even just 2.5 days after the lie was introduced into the right-wing ecosystem. (Or re-introduced, given that similar claims have been circulated before.) pic.twitter.com/hN21weKcCT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 25, 2021
Hello Congresswoman Greene. Please post where President Biden said he wanted to limit meat consumption for the general public. Thanks!
— Justice 🧢 (@justice4none99) April 25, 2021
Biden NEVER said that 🙄
Poor Marge
Republicans and Democrats reject her and boot her from committees.
What a total waste of taxpayers dollars
— Debbie (@DebbieSVA) April 25, 2021
🤣 are we really playing the “they’re coming for your hamburgers fear mongering” still? So pathetic, do ppl actually fall for this?
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project— JRinATL🇺🇸 (@jr_williford) April 25, 2021
Lmao! No one is saying you can’t eat burgers, dumb ass! It’s Recommend to reduce your beef intake! You’re ignorance is showing.
— 🖕🏾The GQP (@faedude) April 25, 2021
Marjorie doubling down on on stupid, irrelevant topics yet again.
— FullonBlue 🏴☠️ (@FullonBlue) April 25, 2021
This why no one takes much of the GOP seriously. Seriously. This is up there with tan suit and the mustard thing.
— pjhurray (@pjhurray) April 25, 2021
Show us in the plan where it says that.
It doesn’t.
Trust me, nobody wants to be near you, much less in your kitchen.
— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) April 24, 2021
You’re a horrible liar, and by that, I mean you’re horrible at lying.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 24, 2021
Given how many people you’re capable of poisoning with your food in any given day, *you* should be the one to stay out of your kitchen.
— parishkl 🏳️🌈🌊 (@parishkl) April 24, 2021
you’ll just have get used to serving vegan-sourced diarrhea sliders at your crappy gun-fetish restaurant
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 24, 2021
I’m pretty sure I ate 4 pounds of red meat yesterday. That’s going to be a hard NO from me. https://t.co/wvGC19cN6R
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 24, 2021
Just another exaggerated lie .They do not want to get rid of “ your meat “ just like they don’t want to get rid of your 2nd amendment.. Do some research on the benefits of lower meat consumption and production on a person’s health and the environment.
— Youngatheart (@sassylass22) April 24, 2021
Don’t worry, Junior.
No one wants to touch your meat.
Believe me.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) April 25, 2021
Lock them up! pic.twitter.com/qbFkhg4CId
— Deborah Von Brod (@DeborahVonBrod) April 24, 2021
Another lie from the party that can’t tell the truth about anything. They want to take your guns. They want to take your religion. Then it’s they want to take your hamburgers. Such a sad demise of a once normal party. It’s now the party of white supremacy and conspiracy theories
— Jeffrey Levy (@jeffreymlevy) April 24, 2021
This is your line Jr. Keep it up you’ll look just like these guolls! pic.twitter.com/Wqys4hOUt2
— Paulvdroettboom@gmail.Com (@paulvdroettboom) April 25, 2021
Cocaine is NOT made out of red meat, Junior. I don’t care what Dr. Ronnie Jackson told you. pic.twitter.com/l8cdJL9NFH
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) April 25, 2021
