© Reuters / Adrees LatifA man sporting a face mask looks toward beef in the meat section of a Costco warehouse club in Webster, Texas, May 5, 2020
"Meat comes with uniquely wonderful smells and tastes," author Jonathan Safran Foer wrote in the New York Times on Thursday, "with satisfactions that can almost feel like home itself."
Yet, he continued, these satisfactions won't be with us much longer. Raising livestock is bad for the environment, slaughterhouse workers are getting sick in record numbers, factory farming is cruel and inhumane, and vegetarianism is healthier and cheaper. And, because this is the New York Times, a meat-based diet is also racist, given the fact that the workers who prepare America's steaks and sausages are overwhelmingly black and brown.
Comment: Excellent arguments by Dockery, but he misses the most important one of all. A plant-based "diet" is a recipe for rampant malnutrition. If the elite were looking for a unobtrusive way to knock off a large portion of the population, an immune system-weakening diet would be the way to go. Couple that with system-wrecking vaccines and the stress of modern society, and voila, the job is done.