Imagine a movie in which a group of psychopathic venture capitalists create social trends and then invest in companies that seek to nurture and grow those trends by selling expensive goods.
Although they are themselves amoral, it is natural for venture capitalists to target progressives by creating trivial moral narratives and linking them to underlying human concerns. The Green New Deal and veganism come to mind. Such novels can generate billions, even trillions, of dollars for psychopathic investors.
Taylor Sheridan — the hugely successful screenwriter of series like “Yellowstone” and “The Tulsa King,” as well as films like “Sicario” and “Windriver” — could write such a script. He may choose to start with vegetarianism. He's already done a good bit of research.
Sheridan recently appeared on the popular radio show “The Joe Rogan Experience” where veganism, oddly enough, took center stage. Sheridan minced no words as he cut to the chase.
“I think one of the most ridiculous positions someone can take is that they're vegan for an ethical reason,” Sheridan said. “It's unconscionable. You can do it for a medical reason, although I don't know what that reason is — maybe you can't process meat and you don't.” “You can manipulate proteins like that. But doing it for an ethical reason is ridiculous.”
I can imagine an uptight progressive vegan looking down on the customers at the local health food store because they're wearing leather shoes listening to the interview at his hippie uncle's house—yes, they exist. His face would turn white and his head would reel.
Sheridan is not trying to offend vegans per se. He just has a bone to pick, so to speak, and tells it like it is.
“And the reason I say that is because I plowed a field. It's a massacre. It's 12 feet of massacre. And every plant you eat will be plowed into the ground some way. So you'll kill everything… People have to understand, you have to take ownership.”
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Rogan was on board.
“Ted Nugent said this on this podcast,” he told his guest. “He said, 'If you want to kill most things, be a vegetarian,'” Rogan said. “If you think about single lives. If you don't think one life is one life, if you think that small things aren't as valuable as big things, then that's a whole different discussion, and that's a strange discussion.
“But if you believe that all life is sacred, what about the life of ground-nesting birds, the antelopes, what about the life of rodents and insects – all these things are destroyed.”
How many high-minded vegetarians – not even Jesus was a vegetarian, mind you, I mean really high-minded ones – dream of agriculture becoming such a burnt offering on their altar?
Sheridan wrote a scene in the hit series “Yellowstone” in which Kevin Costner's character, John Dutton, criticizes a vegan would-be do-gooder named Summer. Dutton concludes, “I think the only real question is: How cool is an animal before you care if it dies to feed you?”
Don't get me wrong. We all eat crops. Corn, beans, squash, all good. And frankly, they're good for you. Sheridan and Rogan seem to be targeting holier-than-thou vegans who claim a false moral high ground by suggesting that they are kinder to the planet, and thus better, than everyone else.
“If you look anywhere in the ecosystem, take the human out of it,” Sheridan continued. “In fact, everything lives at the expense of another organism, so much so that if a certain weed grows on top of the grass, it kills the grass.”
It's the cycle of life. There is a balance that must be maintained, otherwise all hell will break loose. If, for any nefarious reason – for example, a Bill Gates-like character became a world dictator and ordered all people to become vegetarians or die (another movie idea?) – everyone suddenly turned vegetarian, the natural world would be completely out of balance. There's a good chance that It rotates on its axis and drifts towards the sun due to the stupid arrogance of humanity.
“This little seedling grows on top of the grass, it kills the grass. If the grass grows before the tares, it kills the tares… Everything competes with everything else. There is no fish that is vegetarian, and there is no fish that is vegetarian,” Sheridan said. “Every fish, every fish.” Frog, they eat another organism to survive – every single one of them.”
So do humans. It's the way of the world. It may not be pretty, but this is not heaven, where the lion lies with the lamb. It is a fallen world, and the balance of nature, though red in its teeth and claws, is strangely beautiful because, ultimately, it is still God's creation. Natural balance is beautiful. Don't mess with nature or God will get angry.
Bottom line: Veganism is not natural, which is what Sheridan and Rogan seem to emphasize.
However, according to Bloomberg Intelligence's 2021 forecast, “the plant-based foods market could account for up to 7.7% of the global protein market by 2030, worth more than $162 billion, up from $29.4 billion in 2020.”
The global plant-based fast food market — (Have you tried the plant-based tacos at Del Taco lately? I wouldn't recommend it) — “will grow to $28 billion by 2033,” according to VegNews.
In the interview, Rogan told Sheridan that he had watched a David Attenborough documentary called “The Chimpanzee.” He learned that monkeys are one of the chimpanzees' favorite foods, and “they eat them alive.”
At least chimpanzees are honest about their eating habits. Vegans hide in their vegan kitchens and restaurants so they don't have to see all the creatures dying to maintain an inflated sense of ego-driven morality.
Sheridan and Rogan put them right. I wonder if they will listen.
This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.
