A popular outdoors company, MeatEater, has been revealed as being controlled by antigun leftists. The Federalist reports:
MeatEater, a popular hunter-focused entertainment company started by outdoorsman and writer Steven Rinella, was purchased by a rabidly anti-gun Democrat financier late last year in a move that has raised alarms among hunters and gun-rights activists. The Chernin Group, a California-based investment fund run by wealthy Democratic activist and Hollywood producer Peter Chernin, purchased a controlling stake in Rinella’s MeatEater in 2018.
The left-wing, anti-gun political activism of MeatEater’s largest investor, as well as political commentary and activity from some of its key partners and sponsors, complicates the company’s expansion plans given that such a large percentage of hunters in the United States — who comprise MeatEater’s core audience — staunchly support both gun rights and Republican political candidates. Chernin’s company announced the investment in MeatEater and its hiring of a new CEO for the company via a press release last October.
Chernin, who has donated nearly $500,000 to Democratic candidates and causes since 2015, has repeatedly attacked gun rights and Second Amendment activists over the last year. He retweeted comedian Michael Ian Black’s attack on the National Rifle Association as a “terrorist organization” and a separate Hollywood personality’s attempt to force FedEx and Visa to sever their ties with the NRA.
In addition to endorsing calls for a ban on so-called “trophy hunting,” Chernin also signed a petition backed by a Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control group demanding a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons.
Leftists love to politicize business – will pro-gun Americans return the favor to MeatEater?
Whoaa, I wouldn’t want to be his body guards.
Sounds like the business is going to have to sell hotdogs and Vegan burgers! Somehow I don’t see great survival odds as hunters surely will boycott them and go elsewhere even if it costs more.
Another company added to do not patronize list.
Who is to blame here? The guy who bought, or the guy who sold, that is if anyone is ” blameworthy”.
Boycott them Big Time !! Spread the word !!