A juicy burger with fries.
Often a symbol of American cuisine.
A message caused panic about a burger ban.
Washington, DC - Last week's virtual climate summit initiated by Joe Biden resulted in a grotesque outgrowth in the United States. A report by the British tabloid
Daily Mail
on Joe Biden's climate agenda was
picked up
by the conservative US television channel
Fox News
- Donald Trump's former favorite
channel
- and dramatically rocked. The explosive content: The US president called for a 90 percent reduction in beef consumption. That means: only one burger per month! The horror of this radical encroachment on the food and cultural asset of burgers was great. The problem: the message had neither hand nor foot. It was fiction.
Following the deliberations of leading heads of government on combating the climate crisis,
Fox News
showed
an explosive graphic with a simple calculation. The demand is 90 percent less beef consumption, ergo only four pounds (two kilos) per person, i.e. one burger per month. The reason for this was a
Daily Mail
article entitled: "How Biden's Climate Plan Could Limit You to Eating Only One Burger a Month". At
Fox News
However, the ban on burger was suddenly presented as a fact and an announcement by Joe Biden.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott immediately reassured his Republican electorate: "This will not happen in Texas!"
Donald Trump Junior, son of the former US President, also responded: “I'm pretty sure I ate 4 pounds of red meat yesterday.
That will be a definite NO from me. ”Other Republican politicians also spoke up.
The consensus: stay away from my burger.
Joe Biden wants US citizens to take away beloved burger inside - But Fox News report is fiction
The hoax developed into a wildfire. The Department of Agriculture at the University of Michigan was named as the alleged source. But as reported by the
Huffington Post
,
among others
,
Fox News presenter
John Roberts, who made the burger claim, drew a nonexistent connection. Although the university published a study on the effect of meat consumption on greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, it had nothing to do with Joe Biden's climate agenda. The university also responded with a denial.
On Monday,
Fox News
host Roberts then turned the roll backwards: “The data
(from the Michigan University study)
was correct, but a graph and script incorrectly implied that it was part of Biden's plan to tackle climate change.
That's not the case."
The White House responds with a fact check - and pictures of Joe Biden roasting a burger
The former Trump broadcaster has admitted its mistake.
One
CNN
journalist responded to the correction as follows: “Now that the false narrative has become widespread by Republican officials and right-wing media.
Classic. ”The White House had also tried to master the spreading Biden Burger scandal.
Joe Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain tweeted a
CNN
fact check entitled, "No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat."
White House Rapid Response Director Mike Gwin also responded on Twitter - and pulled out a photo of Joe Biden enthusiastically roasting a burger.
The damage is likely to have already been done.
And be a topic at upcoming barbecues with greasy burgers.
Joe Biden has
served as US President for almost 100 days
. Current US surveys speak for themselves. But one measure by the president met with broad rejection.