Factory farmed meat must be lumped right in there with fossil fuels as speeding our demise. On a WBTV morning lifestyle broadcast this weekend (Nov. 23) a chef was featured who wrote on a grill using bacon that "No one invites friends over to microwave." I consider this opinion manufacturing and the neglect of media's educational obligation. In other words, an oblique form of hate speech, anti-empathetic. The assumption by Bessant about beef as a pivotal issue is political perversion. And then he lumps in racism and public health. What is implied is that people can hate harder on a meaty diet. We can't expect beef to be cheap when climate is becoming unstable. I'm finding potatoes, rice, flour and beans rising in price. I'm looking out my kitchen window at white Japanese turnips I'll be eating by Christmas. We're having visions of Scarlet O'Hara post-Civil War recently. "I really don't give a damn if I never see another hamburger again."
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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Factory farmed meat must be lumped right in there with fossil fuels as speeding our demise. On a WBTV morning lifestyle broadcast this weekend (Nov. 23) a chef was featured who wrote on a grill using bacon that "No one invites friends over to microwave." I consider this opinion manufacturing and the neglect of media's educational obligation. In other words, an oblique form of hate speech, anti-empathetic. The assumption by Bessant about beef as a pivotal issue is political perversion. And then he lumps in racism and public health. What is implied is that people can hate harder on a meaty diet. We can't
expect beef to be cheap when climate is becoming unstable. I'm finding potatoes, rice, flour and beans rising in price. I'm looking out my kitchen window at white Japanese turnips I'll be eating by Christmas. We're having visions of Scarlet O'Hara post-Civil War recently. "I really don't give a damn if
I never see another hamburger again."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexican-cattle-imports-us-new-world-screwworm-b2876619.html
Bessent is right.
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