America Is Done Pretending About Meat - The Atlantic

The embrace of meat isn't just about food, but also about what meat represents: tradition, strength, dominance, muscles—values championed by the right. (There's a reason that "soy boy" is a common pejorative to describe insufficiently masculine liberals.) Conservatives have long sought to turn meat into a front in the culture wars, even suggesting that Democrats "want to take away your hamburgers." Last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued a preemptive ban on the sale of lab-grown meat in his state, describing it as part of "the global elite's plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish, or bugs."…

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/meat-boom-trump-rfk-jr/682150/