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August 20, 2024
What Hunters Need to Know About Vice President Harris’s Red Meat Restriction Ruse
The iconic 1980s TV ad for Wendy’s burgers had three gray-haired ladies famously asking, “Where’s the beef?” in a jab at competitors McDonald’s and Burger King.
But if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected in November, it’s a question that could be asked a lot more given her past statements and current staunch anti-Second Amendment beliefs. After all, this is a candidate who just a short time ago vowed to implement mandatory gun buybacks – or confiscation.
During her failed 2020 Democratic presidential bid, Vice President Harris said she believed the federal government should play a heavy role in restricting Americans’ red meat consumption to combat climate change.
For the approximately 10 million hunters who aren’t registered to vote, their ability to go out to the woods and fields for a hunt could be in the crosshairs.
Say What?
It was back in 2019 and Democratic presidential candidate then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was participating in a CNN townhall focused on climate change. A questioner lobbed a seemingly laughable question to the California progressive but it was in all seriousness and she bit.
“Many countries have changed their dietary guidelines to reduce the consumption of red meat,” the questioner began. “Do you support changing the dietary guidelines and, if elected, how will you implement those changes so that people effectively change their diet?”
After not directly answering, CNN moderator Erin Burnett pressed specifically if Sen. Harris would work to restrict red meat consumption.
“So the answer is yes… and the balance we have to strike here is about what government can and should do about creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors,” the former senator said.
Burnett asked again for clarity, “You would change the guidelines… to reduce red meat, specifically?”
“Yes – I would,” the now presidential nominee reiterated.
That’s one heck of a double-down.
Continuing Down That Road
There will be plenty of naysayers who will assert the possible president would never ban or restrict red meat. The glaring and obvious answer is she’s already doing it – as the vice president in a Biden administration that is openly and fervently hostile to the firearm industry and already pushes an anti-hunter policy agenda that places restrictions on millions of Americans who enjoy partaking in America’s greatest pastime. Their plan, though, is to do it in backdoor and end-around ways.
The Biden-Harris administration faced nationwide – and bipartisan – scorn for its failed attempt to eliminate federal funding to support hunter education programs in elementary schools and early education opportunities. The backlash was so fierce the president himself signed into law a near unanimous bicameral, bipartisan bill that reversed his own administration’s move to kneecap early hunting education programs.
Data shows involvement in early youth recreational shooting sports and hunter education programs lead to safer gun ownership and use, as shown here, here and here.
Want more evidence that the Biden-Harris administration is anti-hunting and a President Harris would further attack America’s hunting heritage? Look no further then their record of banning certain ammunition from being used by hunters on public lands – the only possible opportunity for millions of Americans to participate in hunting.
The Biden-Harris administration oversees agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), both of which are responsible for overseeing public lands in National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs). As the administration has received continued and fierce pushback from the hunting community about policies that would ban the use of traditional lead ammunition on these lands, administration officials and allied congressional leaders have yet to provide any peer-reviewed study or clear science to back up these restrictions. That’s because there is none and it’s all to please anti-hunting animal rights and climate activists at the expense of America’s outdoorsmen and women.
Vice President Harris will continue this anti-hunting agenda and will surely push even more restrictions.
Hunters Must Register
Vice President Kamala Harris picked progressive Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and the campaign has already attempted to ease hunter concerns about the ticket with camouflaged hat marketing schemes and reiterating their “We respect hunting, but…” attacks on the Second Amendment. America’s hunters should not be fooled. A Harris-Walz administration would be even more hostile to our hunting and shooting sports heritage, our Second Amendment rights and the firearm, ammunition hunting and shooting sports industry than the Biden-Harris administration has been.
That’s why it’s so critical for the 10 million hunters who aren’t already to register to vote and show up on Nov. 5 to cast their ballots. Take a few minutes to register and get to the polls in November to cast a #GUNVOTE® so you don’t risk your rights.
America’s hunting opportunities are on the ballot.
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