Why NOT to vote Republican

[frugal-one]

Seeing republicans in a variety of states (OH and PA for starters) are trying to reduce child labor laws. One was to let kids go into coal mines if it was as a possible career choice. Really.

[jp1]

Seeing republicans in a variety of states (OH and PA for starters) are trying to reduce child labor laws. One was to let kids go into coal mines if it was as a possible career choice. Really.

So you don't appreciate the republican desire to romanticize the lifestyle of Oliver Twist? Personally I'm looking forward to the rollback of food safety rules so that we can relive Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". Combine the two and you surely have a modern day capitalist's utopia!

[bae]

Now here's an interesting Republican:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/o...can-party.html

[catherine]

Now here's an interesting Republican:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/o...can-party.html

I could get behind:

"But Mr. Massie’s lifestyle and brand of politics, the same brand that once marked him as a quirky outlier, have aligned with the current political moment — when many on the right and left are looking to pull back from the hyper-complex systems that govern the modern world, and move toward a more rooted way of life"

and

"The proposal that best shows his political vision is the PRIME Act, which would allow small farmers to process meat at local facilities, rather than at large slaughterhouses that have the funds to pay for a full-time, on-site U.S.D.A. inspector. This offers a way to sidestep a meat production system dominated by an oligopoly of four gigantic corporations whose environmentally destructive, deeply cruel processes barely resemble the act of farming as we once understood it."

and

"He suggested that it will be impossible for 'eight billion people on a finite planet' to build an ecological future while still maintaining our system of unrestrained material consumption."

Other things, not as much, but he certainly is an interesting Republican

[frugal-one]

Small farmers here go to local meat slaughtering facilities… that is nothing new or requires needed change?? USDA inspectors are not paid by private companies….definitely would be a conflict of interest. Sounds like this guy is just looking to push the “hot buttons” … to see what will stick?

BTW… Can’t read the article without signing in.

[LDAHL]

We get our beef processed at a small local place already. Not sure what this guy is crusading for.

[jp1]

Joel Salatin would like to be able to process his own beef.

https://a.co/d/ir01JxM

[catherine]

We get our beef processed at a small local place already. Not sure what this guy is crusading for.

He's crusading for making it easier for local farmers to have their beef slaughtered locally, so that meat processors can better compete with the extremely destructive, inhumane, pervasive practices of the concentrated animal feed lots that, as he says, are owned by an oligarchy of six corporations.

You think everyone gets their beef slaughtered by small local businesses? 90% of eggs and beef come from CAFOs. They shut out the small processors.

[flowerseverywhere]

Another “interesting” republican

Lauren Boebert is praising her son who at seventeen will be making her a 36 YO grandmother.

Hooray! A wonderful role model for our youth

https://people.com/politics/rep-laur...a-grandmother/

party of family values.

[iris lilies]

Another “interesting” republican

Lauren Boebert is praising her son who at seventeen will be making her a 36 YO grandmother.

Hooray! A wonderful role model for our youth

https://people.com/politics/rep-laur...a-grandmother/

party of family values.

would you rather she publicly shamed him?

I doubt she thinks this is a good and smart move.