The revenge of the carnivores with the American right on the hunt for testosterone (and the feelings of guilt also disappear)

Once the symbol of the Forzuto male was a arm of iron, which ate to burst spinach boxes, with the iron that swelled his biceps, while the male Bolso and overweight, Poldo, he swallowed up with hamburgers, so much so that he became the symbol of a fast food chain (Wimpy). In recent years, the rhetoric of the Forzuto male seemed to have faded, together with the consumption of meat. But here we are still here. Decades of alarms on the damage of the meat, and intensive farms, campaigns on countryside to ennoble herbivores and promote vegetable foods, seem already forgotten. Make America Healthy Again has failed miserably. And yes, they also have to do with them – it seems that you can no longer do without mention – Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Vegans and turkeys

The data are clear: in ten years, from 2014 to 2024, the annual per capita consumption of meat has increased by almost 28 pounds, the equivalent of about 100 chicken breasts each. What has failed, and the ethical ease of the sorceress has given a big hand, is the sense of guilt. How bad is there to eat a lot of meat? Very bad, as we have said, but it seems that no one more cares. Those who still declare themselves Vegans or vegetarians, says a research cited by The Atlantic, in reality they do not disdain to eat ham and turkeys, if necessary. There has been a mishap, not between Russia and China, but between self -perception and reality.

Carnivores against « soy boy »

Why is it happening? The obsession with diets has to do with it, which recently put proteins on the throne. The best -selling snack at national level are dried meat sticks, the slim jim. McDonald’s and Carl’s Jr who had introduced vegetable -based menu, alternatives to meat, have abandoned them (a bit like the gods, the policies of the anti -discriminatory staff). But then there is, above all the political question, as Yasmin Tayag writes on The Atlantic: «The embrace of the meat does not only concern food, but also what the meat represents: tradition, strength, dominance, muscles, values ​​supported by the right. There is a reason why « Soy Boy » is a disproceative common to describe the liberals not sufficiently masculine. The conservatives have long tried to transform meat into a front in cultural wars, suggesting even that the Democrats « want to take away the hamburgers ». Last year, the governor of Florida Ron Desantis issued a preventive ban on the sale of meat cultivated in the laboratory in his state, describing it as part of the « global elite plan to force the world to eat meat cultivated in a capsule of insects ».

Male chauvinism and nutrition

And here you could make a digression/comparison with our local sovereigns who hate what they call artificial meat (but is grown), while they do not make a pleated on intensive farms, in which animals who have died and full of diseases lie. And a parallel is also there with the reference to tradition, which advocate both the American right and the Italian one. The New Yorker talks about the « revenge of American Steakhouse » who « for some shines the right order ». The tradition is that, at least that invented, like all traditions. Needless to add that men were hunters originally and today they eat more women’s flesh. Statistics show that men most attached to tradition (euphemism for male chauvinists) eat more meat than all.

Raw beef testicles

Helen Rosner, in the New Yorker, does not seem amazed by Steakhouse’s return: «It seems to me that there is consistency between what happens. The rise of traditional wives, the end of the flu vaccine, the silent luxury, the return of polio, the return of Donald Trump and its taste, among other doubts, for the well -cooked meat ».
The hamburger is very popular among Trump fans and among the influencers who use it to contest the « false masculinity of the left » and to invite raw beef testicles to increase testosterone. The well -known Anchorman Maga Tucker Carlson prefers an interior of animal and raw eggs. The right -wing podcaster Joe Rogan already is denied, or resized, the alarm on the climate of intensive farms and Elon Musk gives him reason: « You can eat all the meat you want ». Eat, baby, eat. Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr., meanwhile, invites everyone (followed by several fast food chains) to replace the seed oil (falsely accused of causing diseases) with the beef segon.

Restoration

In short, texts such as « The omnivorous dilemma » by Michael Pollan or « If nothing cares » by Jonathan Safran Foer and documentaries such as « Food Inc. » They are substantially forgotten. The Americans, all together passionately, have started eating meat again, without too many guilt. In line with the large collective forgiveness given by the new priests of power, which invite you to care about the climate, pandemics, animal welfare and the state of the planet. Ultimately, of the others. As the philosopher wrote Peter Singer: « Most people will continue to do something safely to do something wrong, as long as he has a lot of company ».