‘Completely Invented’: CNN’s Daniel Dale Fact Checks Fox News, GOP Claims About Biden’s Meat Tyranny

CNN’s Daniel Dale took conservatives to the chopping block for falsely claiming President Joe Biden’s climate plan involves dramatically reducing how much red meat Americans are allowed to eat.

On Monday, Dale appeared on New Day to talk about how right-wing media outlets and various Republican figures were outraged over the weekend because of Biden’s supposed plan to severely restrict meat consumption around the country. He got right down to it by pronouncing the alleged plan “completely imaginary. It’s totally fabricated.”

“When I come on your show I have some nuance to bring you about claims that are being made,” he said. “There’s no nuance. This is totally wrong. You have Republican governors taking a firm stand against a Biden plan that does not exist at all.”

Dale tracked the claim back to a Daily Mail article about a year-old academic study on how greenhouse gas emissions might be reduced if Americans drastically changed their diets. The study included one scenario where Americans only ate 4 pounds of meat per year, and the Daily Mail sensationalized that by speculating (without evidence) that Biden will make that a reality to try and stop climate change.

“There’s no relationship with this study from a year ago and what Biden is actually calling for,” Dale said. He went on by calling out multiple Fox News figures who sounded the alarm over the tabloid’s claims about Biden’s supposed anti-meat agenda.

“Again, this is completely invented out of whole cloth,” Dale concluded. “It’s been striking to see how complete nonsense has gone from a British paper to Fox, to the entire right-wing ecosystem.”

Watch above, via CNN.