Veggie Tales
Today’s CSM has an interesting article that is just one more confirmation for a theory I, as well as many others on the Right, have long held. Environmentalism is not a movement to “Save Mother Earth,” nor is it a misguided attempt to connect to Gaia, but is in reality a backdoor scheme to institute socialist policies that the Left cannot achieve at the ballot box. Is it just a coincidence that every policy proposed to alleviate some imagined or exaggerated environmental threat is coercive and collectivist?
What is the latest left-wing lifestyle choice that they want the rest of us to obey by government order? Vegetarianism! The article is no longer available online, but it states that “in the future a day may come when there isn’t enough grain for both humans and livestock — at least not at the U.S. consumption rate. Add to this the environmental impacts of modern industrial-scale meat production, and many wonder: With a predicted world population of 9.5 billion by midcentury, are we all destined to be vegetarians?” The reporter does briefly mention lab-grown meat, but not so subtly mentions possible war and collapsing nation-states if we continue to expect to consume meat at current rates. It isn’t until the end that the topic of the more delicious and healthy grass-fed meats is considered.
Let me make this clear, enviros: I will not be taking mass transit. I will not be driving a hippie car. I will not set my thermostat above 70 degrees in the summer. I will never recycle. And believe this, from an Atkins devotee: the day I become a vegetarian is the day that pig roasts fly, so you can kiss my Boston Butt and munch on my Italian meatballs.
Jihadis: War on Terror Front Moves
Tomorrow’s Christian Science Monitor is reporting in a front page story that “coupled with intelligence finding that fewer foreign fighters are seeking to enter Iraq, as well as with postings from jihadist websites exhorting would-be foreign fighters to take up the fight in Afghanistan, the arrivals suggest that Islamist extremists are adjusting their international fight to hit the United States and the West where they perceive them to be weakest.” Why do I think that Sen. Obama and the rest of the D’s will attack President Bush for increasing violence in Afghanistan without acknowledging this is a result of the success of Bush’s policy in Iraq?
