Conservatives Lose Their Minds Over False Claim That Biden Plans To Limit America’s Red Meat Intake

Conservatives spent the weekend freaking out over President Biden’s new meat consumption requirements to address the climate crisis. The only problem was, the claim that he instituted any requirements was entirely false.

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The Daily Mail started the rumor and Fox News ran with it. The former was a lot shadier about how they worded things, carefully noting that “Biden’s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a month.” This claim was based on Biden’s goal to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and suggests Americans would have to cut 90% of red meat consumption and get it under 4 lbs per year—something that has not actually been demanded by anyone in office.

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Fox News took things a step further, actually showing a graphic calling the 90% decrease in red meat “Biden’s climate requirements.”

It would have taken less than a minute for anyone—including the governor of Texas—to do enough research to discover these claims were false, or less than that to employ enough critical thinking to understand how difficult it would be to monitor each individual person’s red meat intake. But of course, then they wouldn’t have been able to be mad at Democrats over something that isn’t happening.

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Does he fall for it, or is he a willing participant in spreading disinformation he knows rubes will fall for?

— Nikki Martinez (@DrNikkiMartinez) April 26, 2021

Misinformed meat-eaters who actually still listen to Fox News were immediately on the defensive about their red meat intake.

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you’ll just have get used to serving vegan-sourced diarrhea sliders at your crappy gun-fetish restaurant

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 24, 2021

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This faux outrage became eerily reminiscent of how gun owners have spent years loading up on weapons while crying about Democrats coming to take all their guns away.

So….you bought 50 pounds of meat in response to something Biden didn’t actually say or even propose because…why? Is critical thinking just not your thing?

— Yeegrek (@Yeegrek) April 25, 2021

Dude why you eating your dogs placenta

— RubyEggRollz (@RubyEggRollz) April 26, 2021

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And naturally, these clowns are getting completely owned by their own ridiculousness.

Four pounds would be at least a dozen MAGA brains.

— Steven (@StevenMartens23) April 26, 2021

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there are groups of guys who point their guns at their own dicks with their fingers on the trigger to “own” people who talk about trigger discipline, and have ended up shooting off their dicks because of it

— Palomallard (@palomarmoset) April 26, 2021

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*First Published: April 26, 2021, 6:09 am