Why is the meat processing industry the only industry that the president has insisted stay open? More people are infected with the coronavirus in meat processing plants than anywhere else, with the possible exception of nursing homes and/or jails. What makes keeping meat processors running so important? I really don’t understand.
The ethnic cleansing thing could possibly explain it, but that would mean that the MAGAs are cool with ultimately giving up meat in their diets if that means all the non-white people processing the meat die. Is that it? Are they really willing to do that? MAGAs cool with no meat because no one is alive to process it? Maybe, but maybe there’s something else.
I used to eat meat, but I started phasing it out of my diet about 45 years ago when I wasn’t in charge of what food got bought and my newly divorced mom couldn’t really afford it so much. By 15 years ago I was totally vegetarian, not out of any political or ideological bent, but because I found that I felt better when I didn’t eat meat. I’ve recently added fish back in my diet, but my general rule is if it pees, i don’t eat it. this is an entirely self serving dietary decision. I have no grudge against meat eaters. In fact, I love them in about the same proportion that I love vegans.
This meat industry thing has me baffled. Is it really that McTrump is a McMoran and so are his McMAGAs? Or does it go deeper and broader? Does this come down to follow the money, too? How far will follow the money strategies get us before everyone’s a vegetarian by no choice of their own?
Any insight from y’all is welcome.