Yep, You're Eating Poison! A Thanksgiving Tale

kennyc wrote:

Thanksgiving Chemophobia - If Toxins Scare You, Stop Eating
By Hank Campbell | November 25th 2013 1

While driving to my doctor's office to get some persistent Toxicodendron diversilobum (that's poison oak) looked at, I listened to NPR. Just as you would expect of me, my radio stations will all have buttons for NPR, country music, whatever station carries Rush Limbaugh, and a variety of others. On NPR I was intrigued because the guest chef was preparing a meal for alternative Thanksgiving lifestyles, that being vegan and gluten-free.

Now, people may object to persistent claims that going gluten-free is a fad rather than a health issue for the overwhelming majority of people now embracing gluten-free - unless you truly believe all that extra sugar, extra fat, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose and xanthan gum makes you healthier, in which case you probably look like Lady Gaga did on her gluten-free diet. NPR stations love to brag in their advertising brochures how rich (read: mostly white) and college educated (read: mostly white) their audience is, and those are the people really embracing gluten-free as fashion.

There are no special Thanksgiving menu programs on turkey hunters or those paleo diet folks. NPR knows their base and their base is scared of science and chases food fetishes.


An all too-common attempt by environmental activists to manipulate science for emotional effect. Link and credit: American Council on Science and Health

I may worry about the backlash affecting people with Celiac disease, but the fact that the gluten-free fad ruined Thanksgiving means it has truly arrived as a trend.
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