Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New York’s famous hot dogs could soon be a thing of the past.
NYC Considering Banning HOT DOGS And Other Processed Meats Over Climate Change
By EMILY ZANOTTI
April 25, 2019New York City may be on the verge of outlawing its signature encased meat, the hot dog, alongside other “processed meats,” in a bid to make New Yorkers more climate conscious.
Radio station Z100 reports that Mayor Bill de Blaiso signed into law New York’s own version of the “Green New Deal” last week, and part of the NYC GND involves teaching New Yorkers to make healthy, environmentally friendly food choices by banning specific, “problematic” dishes from city menus.
“The plan,” Z100 says, “will cut purchases of red meat by 50 percent in its city-controlled facilities such as hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. The new commitment builds off of the Meatless Mondays campaign that was adopted by all NYC schools in 2017.”
New Yorkers will be able to keep their precious hot dog street carts, and tourists will still be able to fill up on dirty water dogs in Times Square — at least for now. The Green New Deal only prohibits city facilities from buying and serving hot dogs and other processed meats in bulk to serve in city-run cafeterias, mostly located in city office buildings, jails, and schools.
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Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/46431/nyc-considering-banning-hot-dogs-and-other-emily-zanotti
What I don’t get, why is processed meat supposed to be less environmentally friendly than unprocessed meat?
Processed meat normally has non meat fillers, like breadcrumbs or other grains or cereals, and traditionally includes animal parts which might otherwise be discarded. I don’t get how this is somehow supposed to be less eco-friendly than say eating beef steak and throwing the rest of the animal away.
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This is just the start of more bans and taxes to come.
I would love to go to NYC and have a ride in a horse drawn carriage eat a hotdog and drink a sixteen ounce soda, but noooo the crazies have taken over.
With the invitation, I would join you.
In a pleasant protest.
We all scoff at these idiotic ideas by crazed politicians but let’s remember, democrat voters elected them. Doesn’t say much for many people allowed to vote.
Aye, and there lies the rub.
I’m sure that if we got a quiet, honest, one-on-one conversation with most of these politicians they would say “Yes, that’s f-ing stupid, but I have to get re-elected, so gimme a break.”
We need to find a way to help politicians call out the BS.
That’s exactly the sort of politician who should never be elected.
No giving of ‘break’s, cut-down the dead-wood – sorted.
Voter turnout to re-elect DeBlasio was 14%. That means everyone else stayed home. You get the government you’re willing to put up with.
There goes Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest on July 4th.
“Processed meat normally has non meat fillers, like breadcrumbs or other grains or cereals, and traditionally includes animal parts which might otherwise be discarded.”
That is the original “don’t ask, don’t tell”.
The Walls have Ears.
Walls formerly being a brand of cheap sausages here in the UK 🙂
Whenever on of my loony friends goes on about a healthy diet – I ask them to explain to a starving person why a big Mac or a hotdog is bad for them.
There is no such thing as junk food – only unhealthy dietary habits – like over eating.
Try starving yourself as a cure for this insanity.
It’s not about the meat per se. It’s about control.
New Yorkers are being conditioned to accept Big Brother telling them what to eat, drink, say, think.
Next they’ll ban rye bread.
Never call a Leftwinger crazy…they are crazy like a fox, they never ask a question they don’t have the answer for and never propose a course of action without the necessary apparatus to implement it. They OWN public “education”, higher education, news, entertainment, sports, even libraries. Meatless Monday is the “secular” version of Fish Friday people of a certain age will remember. Beware.
Baloney!
That’s attributed to Bismarck, but The Daily Cleveland Herald, Mar. 29, 1869, quoted the lawyer-poet John Godfrey Saxe that ‘Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.'”
How did NY push such an insane law ?
Its not a law. Its merely the mayor directing what can/cannot be served in NYC city-owned facilities.
The UK infection is spreading rapidly……in NY.
Here in the US of A it’s easy to tell where the infection is likely to take root. If the state is blue, it’s highly susceptible to infection, if the state is red, it likely has a good amount of resistance to the infection.
Unless by organized shaming or court order the infection is imposed on those other areas.
Rejoice comrades! Party directive 24601 has removed all foods that are produced by decadent capitalists corporations and the immoral rich people that do nothing but destroy the environment and the worker’s morale. Rejoice because your diet is now guaranteed to protect your moral health, physical health, and the balance of the earth. No longer will the degenerate foods of hot dogs, hamburgers, bacon, bar-b-que, french fries, and sodas be allowed to ruin the environment or your well-being. To ensure that all your foods are environmentally and emotionally safe, please consult the new People’s Food Safety Counsel that will be appearing in your government approved living quarters.
In addition, party directive 24601 will also protect the growing minds of our youths who are still vulnerable to nefarious capitalists plots by banning prize toys at all restaurants. The restaurants will now require all prizes for children to be a selection of the following: Mao’s Little Red Book, a Coexist bumper sticker, a collection of poems by Fidel Castro, Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and a poster of Vladimir Lenin.
“The restaurants will now require all prizes for children to be a selection of the following: Mao’s Little Red Book, a Coexist bumper sticker, a collection of poems by Fidel Castro, Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and a poster of Vladimir Lenin.”
Hey kids! Collect them all!
They should impose Cold Dogs for everyone !
We need to Ban Marshmellows. Think of all that Carbon. And cut down all the trees and put of miles and miles of industrial electrical infrastructure to run inefficient electricity produces where it was not needed to places where they leave the lights on unnecessarily. But Google and Facebook will need lots of those data farms running on Taxpayer subsidized running credits, with ratepayers paying higher electricity prices. Companies too, who will need to raise their prices. Or at least make the marshmellows green, the green weenies would feell better
This could get *much* more interesting – read Ken Wheaton’s “Bacon and Egg Man” – and keep in mind that that book talks about “King Mike”, not “King William”.
Talk about your tipping points. This may be the one where New Yawkers are finally pushed to react against the Liberal Oligarchy. It may be just in the school lunch program for now, but the Handwriting is on The Wall. (Daniel 5:1-31) They’ll be imposing this ban on everyone else, soon enough. It’s like that trope in revenge movies, the bad guy ruins a man’s job, drives away his sweetheart, then burns down his home and he slowly steams. But then he KILLS HIS DOG and there is no stopping him. He is justified in everything he brings down on the head of the bad guy. Buh-bye DiBlasio.
Our April Fools day in the U.K. is on the 1st
Is it later in the month in the US?
Unfortunately, no. As much as you might wish to think this is a mere April jest, it sadly is not so.
Ours is apparently, all year round.
“Problematic dishes…” An interesting concept but, who is it that defines what is problematic and what the scope of the definition will ultimately be? Allan MacRae quoted Pastor Martin Niemoller up thread a ways and the citation is spot on in as far as the progression of such edicts go. Today it will be the humble hotdog. Tomorrow it will be fried foods, of any kind, and then, eventually, any food stuff that is not from an officially sanctioned, government sponsored and approved, producer. The black market price of a 1oz bag of potato chips will be astounding and, certainly, the death penalty for anyone caught smuggling illicit cupcakes into the island of Manhattan with the rainbow sprinkles making it a special circumstances crime.
Of course, I jest. Such a circumstance would be completely absurd but how much of what we are seeing played out now in western civilization would have seemed just as absurd 30 years ago? Banning hotdogs is absurd. But, so is banning plastic straws, incandescent lightbulbs, plastic grocery bags… See what I mean?
Regards,
Max
NYC is doing a bang up job of getting people to move away. First, it’s the taxes and now it’s the hotdogs. Folks are already starting to vote with their feet.
nutritionfacts.org Processed Meats Cause Cancer And Have No Effect On The Climate. I Oppose Banning Hotdogs In Private Establishments.
Gee, isn’t fascist central, city menu planning a wonderful thing? What’s next banning all microwave ovens?
Why not ban Socialism? Problem solved!
That, detective, is the right question.
They don’t see it as Socialism. To them it’s social justice, equality, diversity. So they wouldn’t recognize it.
If it walks like a duck …
Perhaps this will speed up the current exodus from NYC.
At the very least it will increase traffic into New Jersey so people can enjoy a good ‘ripper’.
http://www.ruttshut.com/
I wouldn’t count on that Mumbles. Have you looked at NJ? It’s a blue state with it’s on far-left loonies to contend with. Case in point: It currently has it’s own bill in the state legislature to ban plastic bags, Styrofoam cups and plastic straws. If it ever makes it out of the legislature, it’s very likely that Gov. Phil Murphy (D) will sign it. It seem whatever loony ideas NY comes up with, NJ soon follows suit (at least when the D’s are in charge, Occasionally the R’s get to sit in the Governor’s chair and play havoc with traffic on the NY-NJ bridges 😉 )
Unfortunately, Jon, the ex-NYers just bring their loony-left ideas with them and try to infect wherever they end up with the same kind of government that they fled.
For example…California.
Max
Okay, I’m going to have to put this one in the same category as the middle-east country that banned “Yo-Yo’s” because they were causing a drought.
OK, enough! You guys are just making this stuff up now… Not even New York liberals are this stupid!
(Are they?)
How can banning hotdogs fight climate change? I mean, if it’s a beef hotdog, then that is one less farting cow.
Com’on…Fess up. This IS a joke….Right?
Never underestimate the stupidity of far-left “liberals” (they’re not really liberal) or “progressives” (they’re not really progressive) or whatever term they identify with today.