White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is so, so, so bad at this.

Q: Karine, what’s your currently assessment [sic] of the risk to the U.S. milk and meat supply from the bird flu epidemic in cattle?

 JEAN-PIERRE: Yep. So, I know that the Department of Agriculture has been on top of this. I know that they are not seeing any — any concerns to — to milk or any of the cattle or the meat — or meat that we are be- — that we are consuming. Well, I don’t consume any meat, but some of you all — (laughter) — you out there. And so, obviously they are taking this very seriously. They are monitoring the situation. As far as — as far as we understand it to be is that they believe that milk and — and consuming meat is safe.

The current threat from bird flu is small, but not nonexistent; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports:

A person has tested positive for avian influenza A(H5) virus (H5 bird flu) in the U.S., as reported by Colorado and confirmed by CDC. This case occurred in a person who had direct exposure to poultry and was involved in the culling (depopulating) of poultry with presumptive H5N1 bird flu. The patient reported fatigue for a few days as their only symptom and has since recovered. The patient is being isolated and treated with the influenza antiviral drug oseltamivir.

This is just not the time and place to tout your vegetarianism or veganism.

It is not the least bit surprising to see the New York Post report that Biden senior advisor Anita Dunn tried to get Jean-Pierre replaced. For what it’s worth, deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates insisted there had never been an effort to get his boss replaced. (You probably noticed National Security Council communications advisor John Kirby handles the press briefing a lot of days, an arrangement that reportedly irks Jean-Pierre.)