Flashback. It’s September 2019 and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris is asked during a CNN town hall if she supports changing the nation’s dietary guidelines to reduce consumption of red meat, alleging that climate change is linked to the “overproduction of red meat.”
“I think the point that you’re raising in a broader context, which is that, as a nation, we actually have to have a real priority at the highest level of government around what we eat and in terms of healthy eating because we have a problem in America,” Harris said at the time. “We can talk about the subject of this conversation, we can talk about the amount of sugar in everything, we could talk about soda. We could go on and on.”
“So the answer is yes,” she continued. “I will also say this: the balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives, and then banning certain behaviors. Just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time, right? I just do. But there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment. We have to do a much better job at that, and the government has to do a much better job at that.”
“Would you support changing the dietary guidelines, the food pyramid … reduce red meat specifically?” CNN’s Erin Burnett asked.
“Yes, I would,” Harris said.
Kamala Harris is now the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee. Will Ms. Harris use her executive authority to impact the diets of hundreds of millions of Americans?
“Democratic nominee Kamala Harris wants the United States to be more like Singapore,” says Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute. “If elected, she has said she wants to change the food pyramid and enact other policies to discourage eating meat. The ‘government has to do a much better job’ to force Americans’ eating habits to change, Harris said.”
While other countries around the world are incorporating insects into the diets of their citizens, Bruner says that’s not a great idea.
“Advocates for mass consumption of insect-based foods would like you to believe that bugs have been a reliable source of protein for thousands of years,” says Bruner, author of “Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life.”
“While that is true, malnutrition and disease were also endemic and life expectancies were dramatically lower than they are today. The truth is that beef, pork, poultry and other animal-based foods are the most efficient and healthy sources of protein. These climate fanatics pushing insect-based foods are scaring people into adopting less healthy diets.”
