Temptations of the Flesh
Here’s a thing:
Meat should be treated like tobacco with a public campaign to stop people eating it, Jeremy Corbyn’s new vegan shadow farming minister has suggested. Kerry McCarthy… admitted she was a “militant” when it came to clamping down on meat consumption. She said: “I really believe that meat should be treated in exactly the same way as tobacco, with public campaigns to stop people eating it.”
Because using your own taxes to scold you from above and correct your preferences is what she thinks her job is.
Via Samizdata.
Because using your own taxes to scold you from above and correct your preferences is what she thinks her job is.
Does anyone on the left remember the phrase ‘public servants’?
Somewhat related, this may amuse.
Bacon patches. On the NHS.
Bacon butties to be banned in caffs because the veggies leave smelling like an old pig and the sight of someone eating one will encourage The Children to take up bacon eating.
Well, some people take their love of ham, bacon and other pork products too far. And I speak from experience…
The weirdos are coming out of the woodwork.
But remember: any talk of slippery slopes is just sensationalist scaremongering by Big Tobacco.
The labour Party had heard about the notion of being elected, but decided that it was much happier being in opposition . . .
“In addition to this there is the horrible–the really disquieting–prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England”
– George Orwell
there is the horrible–the really disquieting–prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together.
Heh. One of the things I like to think I’ve illustrated over the years.
I note this sentence from Ms. McCarthy:
“There will be different viewpoints, there will be violent disagreements, but it’s about trying to listen to the evidence, approach things with an open mind – and I am very much prepared to do that.”
Query how “listening to evidence” and having an “open mind” mesh with violent disagreements? Perhaps this sentence provides the clue:
“The constant challenging of the environmental impact of livestock farming is making me more and more militant.“
Thus it would seem Ms. McCarthy wants people to listen to her evidence with an open mind or she’ll beat the shit out of them.
Got it.
“Jeremy Corbyn’s new vegan shadow farming minister”
“admitted she was a “militant” when it came to clamping down on meat consumption”
Beyond parody.
Meat should be treated like tobacco with a public campaign to stop people eating it,
Where’s her public mandate? Does she really think the voters are crying out for this?
Does she really think the voters are crying out for this?
Like her new boss, I shouldn’t think Ms McCarthy is overly concerned with the preferences of the public.
No, she knows best and you plebs can stuff your opinions.
No, she knows best and you plebs can stuff your opinions.
It’s the socialist way.
See also this feat of stunning arrogance.
As a conservative I don’t agree with government intervention in people’s preferences, but seriously guys… Eating dead animals is the leading cause of heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke… If you don’t put down the bacon, all the conservatives will die and leave the world to the socialist nanny staters…
Eating dead animals is the leading cause of heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke…
No. The leading cause of all those things is genetic. (I will likely have heart issues as I get older, just as my father did, and both my grandfathers. Diet won’t change that and, actually, neither will exercise.)
And, even then it isn’t necessarily the meat as such. More often it is that a person who eats a lot of meat eats very badly in general – not enough fibre, too little fresh vegetables, too much fatty food. Added to that meat eaters tend to eat too much overall, so tend to be overweight.
A sensible balanced diet with meat in it isn’t remotely unhealthy just because there is meat in it.
Another amusing Twitter account @50NerdsofGray:
Down where tobacco has been grown and processed for generations in North Carolina I recall seeing bumper stickers saying “Tobacco is a Vegetable” …so wouldn’t THAT qualify it for vegan acceptance?
I assume that comrade Kerry will be at least as militant towards even the idea of halal derived meat?
I’m just curious.
Eating dead animals is the leading cause of heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke
No. It’s not.
The weirdos are coming out of the woodwork.
. . . coming out?!?!?
Ah, well, that’s Labour cast into the wilderness for about another 6 years (at least) then…
Ah, well, that’s Labour cast into the wilderness for about another 6 years (at least) then…
Oh, that’ll be fun to—continue to–watch . . .
“Jeremy Corbyn’s top team encouraged street riots. Labour’s shadow chancellor called for insurrection against government, economic adviser said the ruling class would be killed if they resisted and key political aide boasted of his role in violent student protests.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11893986/Jeremy-Corbyns-top-team-encouraged-street-riots.html
Just so we’re clear on who these fuckers are.
Just so we’re clear on who these fuckers are.
In not entirely unrelated news, apparently it’s all been kicking off in Shoreditch.