Banning meat?

[ComfortablyNumb]

Some vegan barrister in the UK is proposing banning meat.

[ofelles]

He should be banned! I'm tired of people thinking they need to protect me from myself

[Bkhuna]

I keep my meat freezer right next to the gun safe.

[holehogg]

Yahoo news should be Boohoo news. It's a crying shame I say.

Edit to include. I'm hoping he was misquoted and actually said burning meat.

[Troutman]

[Oak Smoke]

All we need to do is be patient. Given time the pasty, skinny, so and so's won't have the strength to take candy from a baby. If that fails just come to Texas. Franklin's and several others will be well defended.

[dubob]

There are NO words to describe just how utterly disgusting that idea is to us carnivores.

[JimLinebarger]

Need to check these vegans portfolios. See how many of them have stocks in vitamin companies. Gonna need them if all go vegan.

[JoeSousa]

At first glance I saw "vegan barista" and was wondering why anyone would really care about what some random coffee server says.

[randy.56]

I have all these teeth for a reason.

[JimLinebarger]

To chew our cud?

[TheQuietOne]

I don't know why people get their bowels in an uproar over stories like this. It's the rule of 325 million. In a country of 325 million people, you can find someone to say anything about anything. As if on cue, many gets their noses out of joint by it. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BAN MEAT!! Quit being triggered by nonsense.

[Attjack]

Yesh, It's just divisive click bait.

[Cheef]

I am very difficult to ''trigger''. But I also realize that in todays political world never say never.
If you keep current in politics you might be of the same mind a lot of other folks are coming to.
There is insanity out there, and it doesn't seem to be being held back by much right now.
Yes you might be right for this very instant but you also might be one or two election cycles from eating your very own words.

[ComfortablyNumb]

I don't know why people get their bowels in an uproar over stories like this. It's the rule of 325 million. In a country of 325 million people, you can find someone to say anything about anything. As if on cue, many gets their noses out of joint by it. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BAN MEAT!! Quit being triggered by nonsense.

You are probably right, meat is unlikely to be banned. But we live in different times. People take up a cause and they stick with it until they get their way. For example, for years a group in California tried to get helmets mandatory for motorcyclists, however they couldn't get it passed. Yet they would pursue it every year until finally they got the right legislature and governor and it was signed into law. The article cites smoking. When I was growing up people smoked anywhere. Then it was banned on domestic air flights. That opened the floodgates to more anti-smoking laws, while not completely banning, have severally restricted where one can smoke. Another measure, mentioned in the article, is taxing. Like alcohol and tobacco taxes, they could put a tax on meat to discourage buying it. Will these things ever occur? Conventional wisdom says no. But the new generation of cause bearers who won't quit could get lucky. All it takes is one small law to get the ball rolling. However, I agree it's nothing to get worked up over now. For now it is bemusing.

[Willy]

Oh, the horror! Imagine mandating helmets? What right-thinking person...??

[ComfortablyNumb]

Willy Point isn't about helmets. Point is that legislation was introduced every year until they got it passed into law.

[KenC52]

They can ban rain on the weekends and summer temps above 90 degrees while there at it. As long as there are deer, rabbits, squirrels and wild hogs crossing my property there will be meat on my table.

[MarkN]

To me, a real problem is thinking these "sound bite" solutions will not only solve a problem, but will have no adverse "side effects". To be more accurate, any "no eat meat" campaign should, like the pharmaceutical commercials, be accompanied by all the side effects citing ecological damage, economic damage, adverse health ramifications, social ramifications, and so on.

To think you can take one action and "problem solved" is naive and ignorant. But that's just my opinion.

[Mr. Bones]

Way I see it, if they don't mess with my meat, I won't mess with their veggies...fair enough.

I have no dislike fer vegetarians, or vegans; it is totally their choice to consume what they see fit, an More Power to em....

Messin with others' choices is a whole nuther ball of wax, one which I have not, historically, met with much tolerance.

Presentin anything as a moral, or even ecological imperative, that all others must adhere too, why, I'd haveta reckon that rubs my fur th wrong way, likely more than twicet as much.

There's been some purty brave individuals, out there, that have perpetuated our freedoms, an rights, an I reckon I git kinda twitchy, when I see em bein threatened, eroded, or compromised, in any kinda fashion.

Now, I ain't worried or neither freakin out, upon this article... but, as ComfortablyNumb so aptly pointed out...historically, sometimes, they've had their way.

[Histrix]

You are probably right, meat is unlikely to be banned. But we live in different times. People take up a cause and they stick with it until they get their way. For example, for years a group in California tried to get helmets mandatory for motorcyclists, however they couldn't get it passed. Yet they would pursue it every year until finally they got the right legislature and governor and it was signed into law. The article cites smoking. When I was growing up people smoked anywhere. Then it was banned on domestic air flights. That opened the floodgates to more anti-smoking laws, while not completely banning, have severally restricted where one can smoke. Another measure, mentioned in the article, is taxing. Like alcohol and tobacco taxes, they could put a tax on meat to discourage buying it. Will these things ever occur? Conventional wisdom says no. But the new generation of cause bearers who won't quit could get lucky. All it takes is one small law to get the ball rolling. However, I agree it's nothing to get worked up over now. For now it is bemusing.

"The new generation of cause bearers..."

C'mon now. These folks are no different than any other generation that has passed before them. Every generation or two has its causes. Remember when alcohol was banned (and later un-banned)? Remember when women's suffrage was a cause? As a non-smoker, I am delighted that some common sense restrictions were put in place to limit where folks could smother me (and my clothing) with their deadly and foul smelling exhaust.

On a planet with an ever increasing population, a changing climate, and declining resources (some of which are going to hit agriculture particularly hard) meat production at higher (and even current) levels is likely to become unsustainable or affordable. Won't really need to worry about taxing meat to try and limit demand/consumption as free market pricing itself is likely to address the problem.

Then you'll be glad to have that Impossible Whopper to fall back on!

[mnavarre]

Those "plant based burgers" are so ridiculously processed that it's not even funny, most vegan food is. I've got a friend who owns a vegan restaurant who used to be all "Do you know where your food comes from?", He kinda stopped when I said "Yes. Cows. Where does Hydrolyzed Soy Protein come from?"

[Histrix]

mnavarre - Most vegan food is "ridiculously processed"?? Gee, when I make a vegan meal the only processing done is using my nakiri to chop the veggies. I guess the only way it could be less processed is to just eat the cucumber whole.