The right’s new bogeyman: that Biden will take America’s hamburgers away | Art Cullen

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The right’s new bogeyman: that Biden will take America’s hamburgers away | Art Cullen

Written by Art Cullen

The real threat to our way of life – and Saturday night steak – is an oligopoly food system that teetered close to collapse last spring when its workers were overcome by Covid

First President Obama was coming for your guns. Didn’t happen. Then President Trump said the socialists were going to take away our energy. The lights are on after 100 days, although it got dicey in Texas for awhile (and no, wind turbines didn’t cause the ice storm).

But whoa, Nellie! We hear a Hamburglar will steal your right to beef before you can say “pass the ketchup”.

Related: Republicans’ climate credibility hit by make-believe ‘war on burgers’ claim

The 'take away your meat' scare belies the fear felt by Big Meat when its own system crashed

Art Cullen is editor of the Storm Lake Times in north-west Iowa, where he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing. He is a Guardian US columnist and author of the book Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America’s Heartland

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