{"id":1078915,"date":"2021-12-03T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078915"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:43:52","slug":"china-celebrity-vegetarianism-is-blind-worship-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-celebrity-vegetarianism-is-blind-worship-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Celebrity Vegetarianism Is \u2018Blind Worship of the West\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-celebrity-vegetarianism-is-blind-worship-of-the-west%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1078915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240433.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Wednesday mocked vegetarianism as an unhealthy obsession of Chinese entertainers who spend too much time on the \u201cblind worship\u201d of Western values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) sudden vitriol toward vegetarians appears to have been provoked by one particular celebrity video:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><span>Zhang Jingchu and Tao Hong, both well-known Chinese actresses, appeared in a 45-minute documentary, during which they promoted the idea that eating vegetables is healthy while eating meat is cruel and unnecessary from a nutritional perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you eat that piece of beef, it\u2019s like driving a car for 60 kilometers and you can feed 30 vegetarians on the same piece of land, while you can only feed one carnivore,\u201d the documentary said, connecting vegetarianism with reducing carbon emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The stars and the video gave many positive labels to vegetarianism, calling it fashionable, healthy and green, while calling meat consumption barbaric, bloody and destructive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><i><span>Global Times, <\/span><\/i><span>Chinese \u201cnetizens\u201d were having none of it, gleefully mocking Zhang and Tao for pushing an \u201cunhealthy lifestyle\u201d and trying to \u201cseize public opinion and obscure the national food policy with incorrect, extreme and non-mainstream\u201d nutritional theories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome extreme environmentalists in the West have a problem with people eating meat in China, even claiming that every time a Chinese person eats a piece of meat, \u2018a puff of smoke rises from the Amazon forest,\u2019\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>noted derisively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The communist paper linked the vegetarian conspiracy to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202106\/1226620.shtml\"><span>crusade<\/span><\/a><span> by a streaming video account in June that tried to convince Chinese people to eat less seafood. The account was supposedly exposed as a sinister Western conspiracy to meddle in China\u2019s collective colon because two former employees of the video content creator made \u201canti-China comments on Twitter,\u201d and one of them later went to work for the U.S. Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Towards the end of its anti-vegetarian tirade, the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>tipped its hand, revealing its comically heated repudiation of plant-based diets is really all about rejecting the demands of Western climate activists, who have lately grown a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/11\/biden-signs-joint-statement-with-worlds-worst-polluter-china-on-seriousness-of-climate-change\/\"><span>bit less placid<\/span><\/a><span> about China\u2019s status as the world\u2019s worst polluter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18738370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"42\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18738370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-73188323.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1298\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">XIAN, CHINA \u2013 FEBRUARY 2: (CHINA OUT) Workers focus on the coke furnace at the Xian Coking Factory which will be shut down while the local government launches a campaign to reduce air pollution February 2, 2007 in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. The factory emits about 300 million cubic meters of exhaust gas every year. China has failed, compared with other nations, in its efforts to protect the environment over the last three years. A new government report ranks the country 100th in terms of ecological modernization on a list of 118 countries, the same ranking it held in 2004, according to the Modernization Report 2007 released by the Chinese Academy of Science. (Photo by China Photos\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThey were just deluded by some heresy. Some Western countries do not want to give up their luxurious lifestyles, driving cars with large engines and eating beef, but they ask developing countries to change to let them maintain their lifestyles,\u201d Fudan University cyberspace research director Shen Yi said of Zhang and Tao.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>followed up on Shen\u2019s comments by arguing that Chinese people eat less than half as much meat per capita as Americans, implying that vegetarians should direct their criticism westward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This Communist Party backlash against Zhang and Tao\u2019s video did not come out of nowhere. The U.K.&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/chinas-appetite-for-meat-fades-as-vegan-revolution-takes-hold\"><i><span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>in March detected the \u201cgreen shoots of a vegan meat revolution\u201d sprouting in China, driven in part by lingering apprehension from the coronavirus crisis and China\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/01\/26\/experts-chinese-farmers-injecting-pigs-illicit-vaccines-fueling-african-swine-fever\/\"><span>chronic epidemics<\/span><\/a><span> of swine flu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Guardian <\/span><\/i><span>noted the Chinese government made a climate-change commitment to reduce meat consumption in 2016, so the Party might be irritated by insinuations it has not done enough. Also, meat consumption is considered a sign of prosperity in Chinese culture, so the prestige-conscious regime in Beijing feels insulted by demands for its population to embrace vegetarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Wednesday mocked vegetarianism as an unhealthy obsession of Chinese entertainers who spend too much time on the \u201cblind worship\u201d of Western values. 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