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Greens Want Us to Eat Anything but Beef: Snakes, Lab-Grown Meat, and Bugs

Environmentalists and climate activists have become obsessed with promoting any protein source other than beef cattle.
Greens Want Us to Eat Anything but Beef: Snakes, Lab-Grown Meat, and Bugs
A patron makes a face as she prepares to eat a mealworm during an event in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2014. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images
Linnea Lueken
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Environmentalists and climate activists have become obsessed with promoting any protein source besides beef cattle.

Linnea Lueken
Linnea Lueken
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Linnea Lueken is a research fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy. While she was an intern with The Heartland Institute in 2018, she co-authored a policy brief “Debunking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing.” Lueken graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2018 with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, and a minor in geology. In college, she was active in her sorority, the UW Shooting Sports Team, and College Republicans, as well as a variety of engineering organizations. Before coming to Heartland, she worked in the Gulf of Mexico on deepwater drillships as a logging geologist. Lueken grew up in Kildeer, Illinois, and currently lives in south Louisiana.
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