Yet though it has largely flown under the radar of the national and even the local press, there is one element of AOC’s agenda on which he is not just fully in sync with the radical left but actually way ahead of it.
His announcement last month that the city will place caps on the amount of meat and dairy served by city institutions such as schools and prisons is part of
a wildly ambitious plan to cut New York’s food-related carbon emissions by 33 percent by 2030.
That’s bad news for kids in school cafeterias or prisoners who might hope for an occasional hamburger or pizza. Yet Adams’ plans go beyond Michelle Obama’s nanny state admonitions to eat all our vegetables.
Even more ominous is that as part of this program, the city will be tracking household food consumption by private citizens as part of the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice’s
Greenhouse Gas Inventories. This tracking of steak, hamburger, milk, and cheese is, at least for the moment, purely a matter of research. But it isn’t hard to envision how this information could be put to use by a city government that is run by hard-core leftists who live to create more new and onerous regulations for businesses and individuals that might make it harder to purchase such products.
The Green New Deal and Great Reset
He may still not be on good terms with the rock star of the congressional “squad.” But Adams’ plan is more or less exactly what AOC’s “Green New Deal” envisions as part of its blueprint for an America that no longer drives gas-powered cars, flies less, and gives up eating meat and dairy. Indeed, it takes a page straight out of the World Economic Forum’s plans for a “Great Reset” of developed countries in which we’re all
eating bugs rather than meat so as to avert the theoretical and ever-changing date on which climate change will destroy the planet.
As it happens, Adams isn’t a regular at the globalist elites’ hangout in Davos, Switzerland, though he has
attended the Milken Institute Global Conference, which some have dubbed the American version of that gathering. But he is an enthusiastic and public vegan. He credits his “plant-based diet” for reversing his case of diabetes and wrote a cookbook titled “Healthy At Last,” which recommends recipes for unappetizing meals consisting of “jackfruit and okra gumbo” and “forest bowls with earthy vegetables and turmeric cashew sauce.”
If a change of diet has improved Adams’ life, then good for him. But the problem is that when linked to climate alarmism and the unchecked power of City Hall to make New Yorkers’ lives miserable, his evangelical fervor for us all to join him in eating plants (though, as The New York Times noted, he has been spotted at some of the city’s top eateries consuming fish) has the potential to become coercive.
