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    Default Booker is a vegan, but he doesn't want to stop Americans from eating meat

    Sen. Cory Booker, a vegan, was just asked if more Americans should stop eating meat as a means to curb the climate crisis.

    "You know, first of all, I want to say, no," Booker said. "Actually, I want to translate that into Spanish: No."
    The line drew laughs from the audience.

    Booker said "factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment" and claimed that kind of farming is pushing family farmers out of business. He has called for an end to big food mergers — but not an end to meat consumption.

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...9370f8edcbe5b5
    Cory booker wimped out and showed that he is not ready to lead. If factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment as he concurred that it is, why not advocate for the solution and educate the folks you claim you want to lead?

    This is why we need a Progressive and not a Centrist which nowadays is actually Republican-lite.

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    LOL!
    Let's see. Cows kill the planet because they fart. Then we should keep killing them and eat more burgers till they all disappear.
    But, YOU think we should let them roam around farting and killing the planet while you have tofu sandwiches with dandelion tea.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Cory booker wimped out and showed that he is not ready to lead. If factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment as he concurred that it is, why not advocate for the solution and educate the folks you claim you want to lead?

    This is why we need a Progressive and not a Centrist which nowadays is actually Republican-lite.
    I see nothing wrong with what he did. He wants to deal with excessive factory farming it sounds like. That and quite a few things that are allowed in American meat are the issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Cory booker wimped out and showed that he is not ready to lead. If factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment as he concurred that it is, why not advocate for the solution and educate the folks you claim you want to lead?

    This is why we need a Progressive and not a Centrist which nowadays is actually Republican-lite.
    Make America Vegan Again!.........
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    I'm not ready to make the switch altogether, though the diet is better for my heart. I still like chicken and salmon too much.
    Plus I think people crave meat so much they lean on bad things like excessive cheese which spoils the whole thing as far as the health motive.

    How do vegans get a complete protein molecule? I understand their diets are lacking in BCAA

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    Cory Booker will never influence anything about anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    Some people refuse to eat meat because they view it as a personal matter of morals. In that regard, it's admirable if a vegetarian or vegan doesn't believe in forcing others to go along with them. That was my initial reaction before reading the OP.
    I agree, but then they shouldn't complain about CO2 from cows.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
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    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    funny thing is the Chinese own smith field foods, the biggest hog producer in the U.S. will the Trumpanzees give up pork gobbling?


    US pork producer owned by China’s ‘No. 1 butcher’ eyes new markets amid fears of trade war


    https://www.scmp.com/business/china-...es-new-markets
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Cory booker wimped out and showed that he is not ready to lead. If factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment as he concurred that it is, why not advocate for the solution and educate the folks you claim you want to lead?

    This is why we need a Progressive and not a Centrist which nowadays is actually Republican-lite.
    You're the only one claiming that he doesn't advocate for solutions and educating people.

    You're attributing positions to him that he doesn't necessarily have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    I agree, but then they shouldn't complain about CO2 from cows.
    Why shouldn't they, dumbfuck?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CharacterAssassin View Post
    You're the only one claiming that he doesn't advocate for solutions and educating people.

    You're attributing positions to him that he doesn't necessarily have.
    A black vegan? They can't possibly count anyway, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    I'm not ready to make the switch altogether, though the diet is better for my heart. I still like chicken and salmon too much.
    Plus I think people crave meat so much they lean on bad things like excessive cheese which spoils the whole thing as far as the health motive.

    How do vegans get a complete protein molecule? I understand their diets are lacking in BCAA
    The body naturally craves meat (beef, fowl, pork, organs, egg yolks, etc.) and whole foods (fewer than 4 ingredients on a label),
    healthy fats (non plant based oils like olive, coconut & avocado) also from walnuts, pumpkin seeds, almonds
    and full fatted dairy like heavy cream, butter, plain Greek yogurt
    and healthy carbs from dark greens (kale, bok choy, spinach, cabbage, etc.)

    Health issues are rampant from sugar and carbs entering the picture. These strip the body of processing other healthy nutrients,
    decrease the body of testosterone, estrogen, create insulin problems, obesity, cause inflammation, heart disease, stroke.

    The body creates its own cholesterol (which we need). The cholesterol myth has been exposed. Big Pharma went nuts with since the 50's, statins
    became the new "must have" for older people robbing them of the very thing needed for brain health (cholesterol).
    Any coincidence that Alzheimer's became so rampant? I don't think so.

    There is no such thing as "bad" cholesterol. LDL particles are the containers that transport cholesterol through your blood stream, they are needed.
    The focus of concern should be on your triglyceride lab report, not HDL & LDL cholesterol!
    If you want a true assessment of the condition of your total cholesterol, ask your doctor for a NMR test on it, not the basic one most of us get.
    The NMR will show whether your cholesterol particles are large and fluffy (good) or small and dense (not so good). It is not a
    matter of HDL or LDL...............it's about the condition of the particles of both of them.

    "People who took any kind of cholesterol drug, statin or otherwise, were nearly four times more likely to report memory loss"
    https://www.health.harvard.edu/chole...mory-loss-link

    It's Not Dementia, It's Your Heart Medication: Cholesterol Drugs and Memory
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...rt-medication/
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Cory booker wimped out and showed that he is not ready to lead. If factory farming is destroying and hurting our environment as he concurred that it is, why not advocate for the solution and educate the folks you claim you want to lead?

    This is why we need a Progressive and not a Centrist which nowadays is actually Republican-lite.
    He is NOT republican light


    stop being a fool


    he made a choice


    He knows Americans will make their own choice


    its called freedom


    regulating industry to meet our needs is better than shit talking your fellow Americans in an attempt the SHAME them into agreement with YOU

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    I'm not ready to make the switch altogether, though the diet is better for my heart. I still like chicken and salmon too much.
    Plus I think people crave meat so much they lean on bad things like excessive cheese which spoils the whole thing as far as the health motive.

    How do vegans get a complete protein molecule? I understand their diets are lacking in BCAA
    humans have always been omnivores

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