Lately, it seems like forgoing red meat has become an unfortunate proxy for environmental credentials. Epicurious, for example, just announced that it will no longer publish articles or recipes with beef in a decision it calls, “not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.” And then there are headlines like “Why do some green activists eat meat?”
Meat-eating, meanwhile, has become a sort of symbol for climate denial. There are Twitter wars swirling around whether *****’s climate ambitions will infringe on Americans’ right to eat burgers (his actual climate proposals would not).
But diet shouldn’t be a political scorecard for how down you are for the planet. Shaming…