Fact check: Biden s climate policy doesn t involve quotas on burgers ketv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ketv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: 6:28 PM EDT Apr 28, 2021 By Robert Farley, FactCheck.org Posted on April 27, 2021We are collaborating with FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, in an effort to identify misinformation and to ensure news consumers get the facts. This story first appeared on FactCheck.org.When President Joe Biden announced plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by the end of the decade, he provided a few examples, but no detailed plan, about how that would be achieved.Nonetheless, speculation by a British tabloid that it could include reducing beef consumption led to a wave of sarcastic outrage from Republican officials and conservative media. Joe Biden s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030, freshman Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn t Joe stay out of my kitchen? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Ap
How Fox News Channel Invented The Biden Burger Ban Screenshot from Fox News
Update (4/26/21 4 p.m.): This piece has been updated, to include Fox News anchor John Roberts on-air correction Monday.
After a right-wing British news site introduced a blatant lie about President Joe Biden s green-energy and infrastructure proposals â fraudulently suggesting that the administration is attempting to limit people to having one hamburger a month â Fox News then stepped up as the venue to amplify it into a much wider and frankly embarrassing discourse with its American audience.
In doing so, the network s purported news -side personalities are just as guilty as the officially billed opinion hosts, who have all contributed to this fake story now being spread by high-level Republican politicians. For one, the Biden administration does not have a specific plan yet âbut rather an outline of goals to reduce emissions, with a focus on transitioning to clean-ene
Fact-checkers are slamming Republicans and the right-wing media for repeating false claims that President Joe Bidenâs climate plan would require Americans to drastically reduce consumption of red meat. While the rumors about Biden have been thoroughly debunked, these claims were sparked by a real, thought-provoking University of Michigan study that models how a shift toward plant-based diets would reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are driving the climate crisis.
The right-wing claims originated from baseless speculation by
The Daily Mail, a conservative British tabloid that thrives on viral posts, which was then taken out of context by right-wing politicians and personalities who jumped at the chance to throw red meat (excuse the pun) to the Trumpian base.