{"id":52956,"date":"2023-04-20T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52956"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:45:07","slug":"qotd-food-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/20\/qotd-food-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Food fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I think the liberal elite \u2013 which you don’t see bellying up to a creepy-crawly buffet \u2013 just likes the idea of not only nagging us but seeing how much they can make us humiliate ourselves by bending to their will. I can see a bunch of kale grazers in Brooklyn sitting around giggling about how they convinced those stupid rubes in gun\/Jesusland to start chewing cicadas.<\/p>\n

But the diet dictatorship craze is a real thing. You’ve seen the war on beef by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Genius, who runs her oversized novelty mouth about how we have to stop cooking cows because doing so displeases the great and terrible climate goddess Gaia. See, cows may contribute to the world being slightly warmer in a century, so stop doing something you enjoy. Consider not eating beef as a sacrifice made on behalf of the weird weather cult. <\/p>\n

Here’s a locust. Now, don’t you feel better about your slightly reduced carbon footprint?<\/p>\n

What do you think the chances are that the di Caprios and the Gores and the rest of the climate hucksters won’t be dining on filet mignon in their private jets flying from their mansions to Davos to save the planet from your carbon crimes, while you pedal your bike in the rain back to your unheated 500 square foot apartment to gnaw on a dinner of arugula and raw moths?<\/p>\n

Remember, food fascism is for your own good, since you are evidently unable to make decisions about what you put in your mouth for yourself. You see, if you are allowed to make your own choices about your body you might make the wrong ones \u2013 with “wrong” being defined as choices Michael Bloomberg or the other members of Team Helper would not make. <\/p>\n

Kurt Schlicter, “Tell The Nags To Go Pound Sand”, Townhall.com<\/em><\/a>, 2019-11-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think the liberal elite \u2013 which you don’t see bellying up to a creepy-crawly buffet \u2013 just likes the idea of not only nagging us but seeing how much they can make us humiliate ourselves by bending to their will. I can see a bunch of kale grazers in Brooklyn sitting around giggling about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,74,66,28,53,41,13],"tags":[245,480,907,1469],"class_list":["post-52956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-health-science","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-climatechange","tag-hypocrisy","tag-snobbery","tag-worldeconomicforum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dM8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81566,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52956\/revisions\/81566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}