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Anti-Meat Campaign; Personnel Picks

Anti-Meat Campaign The number of media articles against consuming meat and poultry is beginning to spike. They cover the range of arguments served up by vegetarian campaigners – bad for the environment, bad for human health, unethical, etc. There are of course counter-arguments but there is no fair and balanced in the American media today. It is unclear how much impact this campaign will have on attitudes and actual meat consumption. While Venezuela, Russia, and China skew media messaging to the government’s position, the media itself performs the censorship in the U.S., with contrarian messengers kicked off Facebook and Twitter.  There is unlikely to be an attack on meat from the White House. The progressive left has bee...

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