Just posted this on the Why be so threatened by Food Babe page. This may be the most TL;DR post ever but it felt good writing it =D Why be so threatened by Food Babe. Hmm, let me see... 1. She spits venom at GMOs when there are an innumerable amount of scientific studies done that show GMOs are no more dangerous than organic food. She never provides any actual peer-reviewed scientific studies to back up her claims and often just uses her OWN WEBSITE as a reference to her ridiculously inaccurate information. 2. She has been factually incorrect and laughably incompetent on a number of posts she has made. Her post about air travel is one example of this that I cannot understand how people can simply brush off. She was concerned that the air people breathe inside of airplanes might be mixed with up to 50% nitrogen, while people breathe more than 70% nitrogen regularly. She also claims that MSG in pizza tricks us into believing there is more protein in pizza than there really is, which is unbelievably stupid, and that when we chew gum, our stomach thinks that we are actually eating food so we release digestive enzymes, as if our stomachs are somehow sentient beings that we are able to trick. 3. She deletes any and every post made on her page that questions or counters any of the claims shes made. No matter how politely worded the question or statement is, people get banned for anything less than being in complete agreement with her. In addition to this, when she made a response to those trying to attack her movement she only chose a number of vulgar and offensive posts to paint a picture of anyone who disagrees with her as barbaric idiots, and did not mention any genuinely polite arguments against her point of view. People have been banned just for asking for links to studies that validate her information. People have even been pre-emptively banned for being in the Banned by Food Babe or Chow Babe group. 4. She is not simply tricking a number of stupid people for the sake of a profit without any consequence. There is a trail of destruction that she is leaving behind in the wake of her fear mongering. People are becoming terrified to eat any food and may very well be developping mental illnesses related to body image, such as anorexia. People are becoming scientifically illerate and downright delusional based on the misinformation that she is providing. She is using her pretty face and charasmatic demeanor to trick whoever might believe her into being terrified of any and all food that she doesnt promote in her recipe books, making money off of naiviety and leaving people paranoid and misinformed. Food Babe and her pseudoscientific garbage are certainly things to feel threatened by, but even more threatening may be the naiveity of those who take her seriously, as those people may unfortunately become numerous enough to impose their stupidity on the rest of the world and keep charlatans like Food Babe reeling in a fortune.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:15:17 +0000
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