US republicans are tarnishing their plant-eating opponents at every opportunity. Yet vegans are perfectly suited to hold power \u2013 let me count the ways<\/p>\n
Cool news, fellow soy boys and girls \u2013 we\u2019ve been promoted from feeble, tofu-eating wokerati<\/a> to dangerous radicals unfit for public office. Politico reports<\/a> that US Republicans have started throwing \u201cvegan\u201d around as a tactic to tarnish their political opponents. \u201cHe\u2019s a vegan,\u201d Trump warned<\/a> of Democratic Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico in May, while Talarico\u2019s opponent, state attorney-general Ken Paxton, is trying to get the nickname \u201cTofu Talarico\u201d to stick. Paxton also called him \u201ca vegan who thinks God is non-binary\u201d, which I find hilarious as a political put-down \u2013 give the man a Netflix special. (Sidenote: I investigated, and according to the Catholic catechism, God is \u201cneither man nor woman\u201d<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Republicans have also been digging up past pro-plant-based statements from Colorado congressional candidate Manny Rutinel: a campaign committee press secretary described him on X<\/a> as \u201ca far-left vegan activist who wants to end animal agriculture\u201d, posting an old pic of Rutinel bare-chested and wearing a Peta anti-meat banner. Other Dems have also been accused of, erm, liking animals and eating plants: Arizona congressional candidate Amish Shah has been attacked for his \u201cwacky liberal agenda pushing vegan policies<\/a>\u201d and Lindsay James in Iowa drew heat<\/a> for merely supporting the idea of \u201cmeatless May\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US republicans are tarnishing their plant-eating opponents at every opportunity. Yet vegans are perfectly suited to hold power \u2013 let me count the ways Cool news, fellow soy boys and girls \u2013 we\u2019ve been promoted from feeble, tofu-eating wokerati to dangerous radicals unfit for public office. Politico reports that US Republicans have started throwing \u201cvegan\u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}