. making making a difference in the world is really easy. how do you make a difference? don t eat meat. don t eat anything with a face. this will help animals, the environment, and yourself they say. some go further. they also cut out eggs, dairy products, and even honey. it comes from bees. these are vegans. there are so many vegan alternatives to cheese, to milk, to ice cream, to butter, to whatever it is. she joins us now. whitney runs a website called ecovegan gal. he s the author of the paleo
life, all man s life has become. and in reality, this bleak impoverished dystopia is the green adjustive. they talk about earth hour. everybody turns out the light. don t eat meat. don t run gas. don t use electricity. this is their objective. everything we love about christmas is the decoration, the light, and the food. that requires the use of the earth. you know what? christmas is for the kids. it s about the kids. this is just cheap. cheap shots, taking shots at the poor kids. they want christmas. they don t care what the temperature is outside. wow! i can t believe we just turned this from all the climate change deniers who know nothing. if you ask scientists it s overwhelming. they say yes, we have global warming. greenhouse gases cause this. in this country, the united states say we re not sure. we don t know. hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it right there.
second, why is the usda coming out against farmers and against meat when their hole purview is agriculture and they re supposed to be the ones promoting agriculture and farmers. and so they there was a backlash against the idea of meatless mondays. senator grassley tweeted out i will eat more meat on monday to compensate for stupid usda recommendation about a meatless monday. so had a retort on grassley. they did. peta did. not usda. first, the usda said you know, that was really a bad idea. and whoever put that in the newsletter was not authorized to do that. but when peta saw what charles grassley said, they remember they re the people for the ethical treatment of animals, they are against eating meat and so apparently around the office they started taking informal bets when charles grassley would die. and how. they re also taking bets on how he will die. yeah.
maybe. i thin some of the fun out of driving. after fighting with your girlfriend, do you want to peel out of her driveway burning tofu? smells like soybeans. finally a use for tofu. let s talk about meatless mondays while we can. it doesn t seem like it s gotten anywhere. it looks like we ll have meat on mondays again because of this whole problem about the farming community being slammed by the drought. here our economy is waffling still. and then this becomes a message from the usda. let s start having meat on mondays. that s right. because the production of meat bad for the environment. in the newsletter at the united states department of agriculture, don t eat meat on monday because going meatless is good for the environment because animal agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gases and climate change as well. that looks delicious. right. so some some politicians, senator grassley for one, said wait a
our food is being grown. farmers are suffering. oh, my goodness. they certainly are. and food prices, they re estimating will go up 5% at least because of that. so at this time of great and there you can see the price of food, look at that, beef is going to go up, dairy, eggs, stuff like that. at this time of national agriculture crisis, what is the usda, the united states department of agriculture doing? well, you know what? they had in their employee newsletter a little item calling for employees there to make sure that they don t eat meat on monday because they say that, you know, it s better for the environment, cows take a lot of energy to grow so just don t eat meat. which is extraordinary given the fact that agriculture, promotion of agriculture is what they re supposed to do and here they re trying to run beef producers out of business. that s exactly what the kansas senator thought. why is the usda in the business