Do Democrats want to take away Americans' hamburgers?

[hunter]

Is nothing sacred? Democrats want to take away hamburgers from the American people, an ex-Trump aide has warned.

The wild claim about a supposed plot to ban the national food came from onetime White House aide Sebastian Gorka at a conservative political jamboree.

The humble ground-beef patty has become ammunition in a US cultural food fight since a Democrat argued Americans should eat fewer of the sandwiches.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47394484

Republicans can't comprehend a world where most people reasonably resist advertising and other social pressures to smoke, eat hamburgers, buy gas guzzling sports utility vehicles, etc....

Nobody is proposing a "War on Drugs" action against hamburgers, a SWAT team breaking down the door and smashing your BBQ because a passing cop smelled hamburgers cooking.

What these Republicans most fear is something similar to anti-smoking campaigns, programs that stigmatize factory farm meat, reducing the market for it.

But they also fear promotion of lifestyles having smaller environmental footprints for reasons that escape me.

My own extended family runs the entire spectrum from vegan to kill-it-and-eat-it carnivore. The last family vegetarian vs. carnivore war I remember was when I was a kid. In 1970, the year of the original Earth Day, my parents decided to serve a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. That was followed by a retaliatory Christmas dinner at my grandparents, with bacon in everything, including the salad, green beans, mashed potatoes... and pie crusts made with lard.

Since then it's family tradition (and simple good manners) to accommodate everyone's dietary preferences.

[qazplm135]

1. as long as I have my hamberders

I'm ok.

[mbusby]

2. They are not getting...

...rid of my Whataburger. Give those cows some Gas-EX.

[The Genealogist]

3. What Republicans fear most is being cut off from money and power

So, they keep throwing red meat (pun intended) like this to their deplorable base, many of whom associate vegetarian and vegan diets with liberalism.