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SUMMARY:🥩🍗🍖🐔🐄🐮WHEN DID MEAT BECOME RIGHT WING? Saturday S
 alon #3
DESCRIPTION:\nLets read and discuss today's article\nWHEN DID MEAT BECOME R
 IGHT-WING?\n10–12 minute read / 1665 words\nIn America\, there are two f
 amous vampires named Brian Johnson. Well\, sort of. The first\, who admitt
 edly spells it “Bryan”\, is the preternaturally ageless tech entrepren
 eur who charts his erections and uses infusions of his teenage son’s blo
 od plasma in pursuit of eternal youth — and has ended up looking somewhe
 re freakishly in between 38 and 80. The other resembles a man-beast with N
 eolithic coiffure\, always baring a mahogany\, bulging breast\, often chom
 ping on the still-beating heart of some poor animal or other. This Brian i
 s better known by another name: Liver King.\n\nThis throbbing Johnson is t
 he subject of a Netflix documentary released today\; on the surface\, he i
 s a fitness influencer and food-supplement manufacturer. His myth\, howeve
 r\, has outgrown these titles\, and as such he has self-coronated as Liver
  King for his love of offal. He puts away around a pound of raw liver a da
 y\, coaching his fans (or “primals”) to slowly build up to his stomach
 -churning levels. His ethos\, which he summarises as “Why eat vegetables
  when you can eat testicles?”\, is a grotesque literalisation of the old
  “you are what you eat” mindset. Helped along by a “degree in bioche
 mistry”\, Johnson rationalises that you can subsume a beast’s masculin
 ity by consuming its balls: “Vegetables don’t have the raw material re
 quired to produce a healthy set of testicles. Testicles do\,” he tells G
 Q.\n\nHis extreme lifestyle has reaped rewards. He hawks supplements which
  bring in an annual income of more than $100 million\, according to The Gu
 ardian\; unfortunately\, as fellow sovereign Tiger King could have told hi
 m\, allowing a Netflix documentary crew into your compound risks gaining y
 ou a little more exposure than anticipated. Predictably\, the film promise
 s to rumble Johnson’s ruse: alongside all the Nosferatu nosh\, he’s be
 en shooting up steroids. Loads of them\, costing $11\,000 a month.\n\nIt
 ’s a shame really\, as my mouse had been hovering over the checkout butt
 on for a box of LK’s “nutritional food bars” on Amazon. Who wouldn
 ’t want to look\, as my farming-stock family would put it\, like an “u
 pright bull”? Besides\, his promises are borderline magical: beef liver 
 products are “nature’s most nutrient-dense food” and they also happe
 n to “taste like dessert”. Looking at the reviews\, the “dessert” 
 in question must be “dog food”\, “sawdust” or “gasoline” — b
 ut no pain\, no gain.\n\nWhile today’s documentary might spell the end o
 f the Liver King food range\, his ethos\, and the sanguineous slab of the 
 manosphere he represents\, is going nowhere. The bro-ification of food is 
 after all a fascinating new dimension to modern masculinity\, which has se
 en anti-vaxxer and “make America healthy again” evangelist RFK Jr and 
 his Right-wing disciples settle upon Big Burger as an agent of national de
 cline. “We are betraying our children by letting [food] industries poiso
 n them\,” Kennedy told a rally in November\; “sugar is poison”\, he 
 clarified last month. He has a point: American food standards are notoriou
 sly lax\, and emerging evidence on ultra-processed foods\, staples of the 
 American diet\, does suggest a high health cost to conveyor belts of the c
 heap and tasty.\n\n“The bro-ification of food is a fascinating new dimen
 sion to modern masculinity.”\nRead the full article here:\nWHEN DID MEAT
  BECOME RIGHT-WING?\n10–12 minute read / 1665 words\n\n
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