Yep, this is politics 101. It will be fun to watch Dem 2020 hopefuls try and like it enough to get the nomination, but not too much so as to lose the general election.

Here is another "Green Fool"

Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat

https://freebeacon.com/politic...-people-eating-meat/

February 12, 2019 5:00 am

Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) said the planet "can't sustain" people eating meat, as the 2020 hopeful aims to become the first vegan president.

Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews earlier this month that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

While claiming he does not want to lecture Americans on their diets, Booker says Americans need to be nudged into fake cheese because the planet cannot sustain the "environmental impact" of the food industry.

"You see the planet earth moving towards what is the Standard American Diet," Booker said. "We've seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry."

"The tragic reality is this planet simply can't sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture because of environmental impact," he said. "It's just not possible."

Booker says the "devastating impact" of greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry is "just not practical."

"The numbers just don't add up," he said. "We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment."

Booker, who said his vegan "journey" began in 1992 when he became a vegetarian after reading Gandhi's biography, wants to make the "existing model" of the food industry "obsolete."

"You never change things by fighting what exists in reality; to change something, you gotta build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete," he said. "That's the deal here. American consumers should not be told what to eat, but if you provide viable alternatives, in some cases, that taste even better—and if people have more information, if we consumers are informed about whatever it is—the dangers of the overuse of plastics all the way to the conditions in which animals that we are consuming are being treated."

Booker argues all his nonvegan friends "love" vegan food like his favorites, "vegan pancakes" and "vegan stuffed French toast."

"I've seen incredible vegan cheese shops popping up across the country, and my friends who are lovers of cheese just can't tell the difference," said the senator. "You have pizza: I was at the New Jersey VegFest, and Screamer's Pizza is just phenomenal."

"My nonvegan friends love it," Booker said.

Booker is not alone in calling for transformations of major sectors of the U.S. economy. The 2020 Democratic presidential field has already called for the elimination of private health insurance, and to "reshape" capitalism.

Booker, along with every other prominent 2020 liberal candidate, signed on to the Green New Deal, which calls for the "economic transformation" of the United States by transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy in just 10 years. Renewable energy currently accounts for just 17 percent of electricity generation.

Booker's fight against dairy intersects with the aims of the Green New Deal. Initial plans put out by democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed ambitions to eliminate "farting cows."

On the campaign trail Booker endorsed the plan that guarantees every single resident in the country a job with paid vacation, retirement, "adequate housing," and "access to nature," because "our planet is in peril and we need to be bold." He likened the plan to fighting the Nazis in World War II and going to the moon.

Booker explained he first became a vegetarian because his "body just took off," and he had more energy after he stopped eating meat.

He then searched for science that backed up his feelings.

"I found the data that began to reaffirm my vegetarianism," Booker said. "In fact, it led me to more about our environment and cruelty to animals. I began saying I was a vegetarian because, for me, it was the best way to live in accordance to the ideals and values that I have. My veganism started then."

The final straw was eating eggs that did not "align" with his spirit.

"I think so many of our likes and dislikes are childhood memories or family traditions, and you associate the foods you're eating often with such good emotions—but now, suddenly, eating those eggs for me was something that didn't align with my spirit, and I could feel it," Booker said. "I finally just made a decision that I was going to become vegan. I remember my last non-vegan meal was Election Day, November 2014."

https://vegnews.com/2019/2/cor...-to-change-the-world

LMAO!

I’m sure telling farmers, cattle ranchers, meat purveyors, supermarkets and restaurants you intend to kill them economically is a winning strategy!

Keep it up you stupid Democrats! You’re going to make this SO easy for Trump next year.

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Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews earlier this month that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

No problem, Cory.
You don't want to eat meat? No one's gonna force you to eat meat. You be you.
Just leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

"Steak for me but not for thee."

Asshole.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews earlier this month that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

No problem, Cory.
You don't want to eat meat? No one's gonna force you to eat meat. You be you.
Just leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

So why would eating an egg not 'align with his spirit'? Could it be because that egg could eventually become a chicken?

Interesting. So he's for saving chicken eggs but is in favor of Northam's 4th trimester abortions?

Interesting 'spirit' you have there Cory.

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American consumers should not be told what to eat, but if you provide viable alternatives, in some cases, that taste even better

I'm sorry, Rep. Booker, but there is NO Vegan alternative that tastes better than meat. I have a few Vegan relatives (Seventh Day Adventists, they are) and I've eaten meals at their homes. I will admit that they were acceptable and fairly tasty, but not as an alternative to meat. I would not want to subsist totally on such food. (And I don't think it's necessarily healthy, either--there are nutrients in meat that are not present in Vegan food--one can take supplements, of course, but those aren't always the best answers.)

Just to make myself clear, I won't eat a lot of what Vegans eat, and I won't even eat what many females eat. I'm a "meat and potatoes" person and prefer "farm food"--no French cuisine for me.

flashguy

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Originally posted by PASig:
LMAO!

I’m sure telling farmers, cattle ranchers, meat purveyors, supermarkets and restaurants you intend to kill them economically is a winning strategy!

Keep it up you stupid Democrats! You’re going to make this SO easy for Trump next year.

Don't leave out the rather large group of folks like me who aren't going to give up our steaks and BBQ chicken without a fight.

I AM SPARTACUS!!! What a retard this guy is.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews earlier this month that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs "didn't align with my spirit."

No problem, Cory.
You don't want to eat meat? No one's gonna force you to eat meat. You be you.
Just leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

So why would eating an egg not 'align with his spirit'? Could it be because that egg could eventually become a chicken?

Interesting. So he's for saving chicken eggs but is in favor of Northam's 4th trimester abortions?

Interesting 'spirit' you have there Cory.

Great point there Bama, hopefully DJT hammers that shit home on Twitter.

Yeah I didn’t consider the whole, can’t eat an egg, but I can kill a baby angle.

Someone needs to give Don a call and give him that card to play all over the country.

Spartacus ate meat! You’re no Spartacus!

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by PASig:
LMAO!

I’m sure telling farmers, cattle ranchers, meat purveyors, supermarkets and restaurants you intend to kill them economically is a winning strategy!

Keep it up you stupid Democrats! You’re going to make this SO easy for Trump next year.

Don't leave out the rather large group of folks like me who aren't going to give up our steaks and BBQ chicken without a fight.

I AM SPARTACUS!!! What a retard this guy is.

He will have to pry the ribs from my cold dead hands

Maybe we should change his nickname from Spartacus to Fartacus.

Their handlers really ought to tell them to shut their tofu-holes.

^^^

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Blurted by Cory Booker:

"The tragic reality is this planet simply can't sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture because of environmental impact," he said.

Right. But billions of people consuming industrially produced fake food is somehow better in the big picture?

Nut.

I am unable to locate the original "green new deal" by AOC. Is there anyway to see a copy of the original?

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Originally posted by synthplayer:
I am unable to locate the original "green new deal" by AOC. Is there anyway to see a copy of the original?

Here is the original FAQ that was posted to her government website and distributed to news outlets, including NPR:

https://assets.documentcloud.o...een-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf