What the Green New Deal will mean for your hamburger | Jan Dutkiewicz

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's proposal for a low-carbon economy would require a major reduction in livestock production. 'Clean meat' can be the solutionAmid the various critiques of the proposed Green New Deal, few capture the alarmism of the American right quite like Sebastian Gorka's now viral claim that the deal's proponents "want to take away your hamburgers ... this is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved".While it is debatable whether Stalin would have rejoiced in a vegan United States, it is true that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's proposal for a low-carbon economy would require a major reduction in livestock production. But there doesn't need not be an either-or choice between the Green New Deal and meat consumption: the solution to the Green New Deal's hamburger problem lies in Silicon Valley's "clean meat" startups. Continue reading...