Posted
By Sanford Nowlin
on Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:36 AM
Courtesy Photo / Texas Governor's Office
Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a coronavirus-related press event.
This week, Gov. Greg Abbott drew social media and late-night TV ridicule for tweeting out a bogus report that the Biden administration is coming to confiscate Texans' brisket.
On Sunday, the state's GOP governor shared a widely debunked claim from Fox News pundit John Roberts that the Biden White House's climate plan includes capping Americans' consumption of red meat at four pounds annually.
Daily Mail, which published an overheated and theoretical claim that the U.S. would need to slash red meat consumption to reduce greenhouse gases.