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The Rich Zeoli Show

NYC Declares War on Cheeseburgers

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Is New York City declaring war on cheeseburgers? Noah Rothman—a Senior Writer at National Review & author of “The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent article, “Yes, They’re Coming for Your Burgers.” Rothman writes, “[New York City Mayor Eric] Adam’s boosterism for a ‘plant-powered diet’ supplements his efforts to expand a program he inherited from former mayor Bill de Blasio, which is now designed to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 33 percent in 2030 by cutting back on protein purchases. Adams scolded his fellow environmentalists for devoting most of their carbon-cutting efforts to curbing the combustion of fossil fuels. ‘But we now have to talk about beef,’ he insisted.” You can read Rothman’s full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-theyre-coming-for-your-burgers/

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0:00.0

Noah Rothman joins me. He is a senior writer at National Review. He's also the author of the rise of the new Puritans

0:07.7

Fighting back against progressives war on fun

0:10.5

And he's also the author of unjust social justice and the unmaking of America. Hey Noah. Thanks for joining me

0:17.0

I appreciate it

0:18.0

My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me. You got it. So you wrote a piece of National Review. Yes

0:21.7

They're coming for your burgers. This was after a New York City Eric Adams came on and said you know what listen

0:27.0

How we eat matters to the planet and just look at me. I'm a specimen. I'm just such an amazing specimen of a man

0:36.2

Well, I mean who can argue with that?

0:39.9

Look at the guy. Just look at him, right? Well, no, I mean it's it's a joke about it

0:45.0

But yeah, this is what guys like him think they think that everybody should eat like them

0:49.0

Everybody should be vegan like them and the question is Noah Rothman. Do you think this will someday become public policy?

0:57.0

It is becoming public policy that that statement accompanied an announcement of public policy

1:02.1

A program that he inherited from his predecessor, Bill de Blasio

1:06.0

Reducing the amount of meat that the city purchases and serves in city run facilities

1:11.6

It's a program that's duplicated in cities across the United States for a merely progressive run cities across the United States

1:17.6

It has multiple reasons, but the rationale

1:20.9

Center is primarily on

1:22.9

Environmentalism

1:24.6

It's about the extent to which livestock production

1:28.7

Requires a whole lot of land and produces methane emissions and is bad for the for the planet the environment

1:33.9

Primarily the West, but the world generally has to reduce its meat consumption

1:38.1

You can read this in United Nations reports. You can read it and pick the journal journal of nature

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