Larry Kudlow: GND will force Americans to drink "plant-based" beer.

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Where did anyone see Kudlow say that beer was anything other than plant based? I watched the video. the only time he mentions beer is when he says "you can throw back a plant based beer with your grilled brussels sprouts and wave your American flag." . Beer and Brussel Sprouts are both plant based and Kudlow does not say a word about either ever having been meat based but now having to be transformed into plant based products in order to meet Biden's proposed standards. Mary Papenfuss' trying to convince people that he thinks beer is meat based is only wishful thinking on her part and not in any way born out by what Kudlow actually said. If she wants to convince people that Kudlow is stupid( for all I know he may be) she should try finding actual evidence that supports her belief rather than taking a sentence and pretending it means something that it does not.

Perhaps you can point me to Biden's standards -- where it is proposed by Biden -- about changing from meat to plants?
 
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Has anyone here tasted plant based hamburgers? I’d be ok with them if they taste reasonable.

I've tried the impossible burger in the form of Burger King's "Impossible Whopper". I was shocked by how much it tasted like a regular burger.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Well he's right except for the beer thing. I don't drink so that part is irrelevant to me anyway.

Why does the GND mean that I'll have to give up meat, poultry, fish, dairy, and animal-based foods?

Specifics please, if at all possible.

Is AOC going to come to my house personally and tear the Popeye's chicken directly out of my hands? Because if she did that then I might start disliking her a little.

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I've tried the impossible burger in the form of Burger King's "Impossible Whopper". I was shocked by how much it tasted like a regular burger.

-CryptoLutheran
Same. Couldn't tell the difference when I tried them side by side.
 
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Yes. Tried the Beyond Burger, captured the taste of a gourmet beef burger perfectly. Though at £5 for 2, not cheap.
And 100 percent worse for the environment than meat. With meat you have one ingredient to ship. Plant " meat" needs a multitude of unhealthy ingredients shipped from various locations to a factory. Way more resources used.
 
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And 100 percent worse for the environment than meat. With meat you have one ingredient to ship. Plant " meat" needs a multitude of unhealthy ingredients shipped from various locations to a factory. Way more resources used.
You're ignoring some important factors. For instance that for every 100 calories you feed a cow, you get 1 calorie back, the waste livestock produces, the antibiotics they are fed which end up in our environment and in us, the horrible conditions related to animal welfare in factory farming, etc...
 
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Can anyone tell me if this is real or photoshop? If it is real they must have a really low opinion of the intelligence of their viewers over at Fox News.
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Where did anyone see Kudlow say that beer was anything other than plant based? I watched the video. the only time he mentions beer is when he says "you can throw back a plant based beer with your grilled brussels sprouts and wave your American flag." . Beer and Brussel Sprouts are both plant based and Kudlow does not say a word about either ever having been meat based but now having to be transformed into plant based products in order to meet Biden's proposed standards. Mary Papenfuss' trying to convince people that he thinks beer is meat based is only wishful thinking on her part and not in any way born out by what Kudlow actually said. If she wants to convince people that Kudlow is stupid( for all I know he may be) she should try finding actual evidence that supports her belief rather than taking a sentence and pretending it means something that it does not.
First, there's the context - he is whining about animal products being replaced by plant-based products, so it's very clear he chose to say "plant-based beer" because in his mind beer, being an all-American macho man's drink that you usually have with grilled meats and other hearty fare, was part and parcel of the meat culture that would be affected.

But to take it further, there is no need to say "plant-based" when describing beer as it's ridiculously redundant. It's like saying "liquid water" or "hot fire" or "round circle" - by using an unnecessary and redundant adjective it strongly suggests that the speaker believes there to be other forms of the object he is describing. In this case, calline beer "plant-based", especially combined within the context of his whining about meat being replaced by plant-based things, makes it clear that he believes there are "beers" which are not "plant-based" and he therefore felt he had to specify "plant-based" when describing beer.
 
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Don't you need yeast to ferment the beer? That's a fungus. So if you make beer without yeast somehow, that would be even more plant-based.

Besides, many vegans don't eat honey because bees are exploited - or even almonds and avocados for requiring bees to pollinate the farms. So if he is positing some anti-meat vegan conspiracy, then they may turn against yeast. Yeast also produces CO2, so...global warming, maybe?
 
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You're ignoring some important factors. For instance that for every 100 calories you feed a cow, you get 1 calorie back, the waste livestock produces, the antibiotics they are fed which end up in our environment and in us, the horrible conditions related to animal welfare in factory farming, etc...
It's always this speil about factory farming. I've never seen a cow farm that looked anything like a factory. And your soybean burgers take just as many or more resources. You still have to do everything you would do to feed the cows. Now if the cow is mainly grass fed, it's even more so. One of the main ingredients in vegan food is soybean oil that comes from the same soybeans raised for cattle feed, bet they didn't tell you that.
 
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Don't you need yeast to ferment the beer? That's a fungus. So if you make beer without yeast somehow, that would be even more plant-based.

Besides, many vegans don't eat honey because bees are exploited - or even almonds and avocados for requiring bees to pollinate the farms. So if he is positing some anti-meat vegan conspiracy, then they may turn against yeast. Yeast also produces CO2, so...global warming, maybe?
Well then he'd call it "vegan beer", not "plant-based" - but of course we know he's not thinking about yeast and in terms of vegan vs. plant-based vs. meat, etc. He's so riled up and angry about the "libs" attacking his meat culture that he's just frothing at the mouth as he spews silly concepts that make no sense. He's ranting and raving. It's just funny because he is so consumed with political rage that he's saying things as inane as "plant-based" beer. There is such a thing as vegan beer and non-vegan beer, but all beer is plant-based.
 
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I’m not a beer guy, but I thought it was made from grains. Which are plants. Are these guys for real?
Apparently Martin Luther thought well enough of plant based beer:

“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”

;) - Luther was of course kidding.
(note to random readers, this isn't another way to enter heaven!)
 
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It's already begun. I was shocked (SHOCKED I tell you!) to discover that one of my favorite mead brands, Viking Blood Mead, is no longer made with real Viking blood but merely made red with hibiscus.

(good thing someone told me Ragnarok is coming soon)
 
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