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#1705: Vani Hari
A.k.a. The Food Babe
A.k.a. The Jenny McCarthy of Food
Food Babe is the blog of Vani Hari, an internet troll and consumer advocate who specializes in advice on nutrition and health-related matters, topics on which she has no background, education (she has a degree in computer science and background as a management consultant) or even minimal understanding trusting the Food Babe on food or health is much like trusting Donald Trump on vaccines or the random Deepak Chopra quote generator on life wisdom. She is, in other words, full of shit.
http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2016/08/1705-vani-hari.html
trotsky
(49,533 posts)tells you all you need to know about her understanding of science.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/food-babe-misinformation-on-travel/
RapSoDee
(421 posts)...we were all wondering where it was...
Be sure and trash her for advising people to become informed about the mutant, chemicalized foodlike product that multinational corporations are trying to shove down our throats.
Lancero
(3,004 posts)She has a history of pushing items on her website that contain ingredients that she herself says are 'dangerous'.
If these ingredients are dangerous, then why is she selling them on her website?
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)and David Icke just wants to know if our leaders are human.
I'm sorry, but advocating for crazy shit based on ignorance and conspiracy theories isn't helping.
Also, your meaningless word salad is precisely that, every living thing is a mutant, if you know anything about biology you wouldn't state that as if its supposed to be scary, and if you knew anything about chemistry, you would know that absolutely everything is a chemical.
Archae
(46,337 posts)And the "Food Babe" is a total kook.
Read the article.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Just give me a heads up and I'll take it from there
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)- Vani Hari
Sounds like someone who knows what they're talking about...
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)right. I can't figure out what this agenda is.....
Lancero
(3,004 posts)Hilariously, she also wrote up this.
http://foodbabe.com/2011/10/04/should-i-get-the-flu-shot/
"I'm not antivax, I just don't like the stuff they put in em"
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)lot more money than she does by pushing them as a public mandate.
And why not point out all the toxic chemicals that are including along with vaccinations? Is there something wrong with being made aware of something you might not otherwise have known about?
Or is it just better not to know, and remain in blissful ignorance? Like tobacco or asbestos?
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)The first is that if she can't pronounce the ingredient, it must be bad for you. I'd like to see her pronounce DNA.
The second is that, even if its natural, if it comes from a part of an animal that's icky, she doesn't like it, and it's bad for you. Her famous example is beaver butts, but there are a lot of foods that people with weak constitutions shouldn't look up where they came from.
And third, if it's an ingredient that's used for something else not food related, it's bad for you. Like vinegar!
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)miyazaki
(2,244 posts)flvegan
(64,409 posts)Just curious.
LOL, waves.
No idea who or what this is about, just find accusations funny.
Emilybemily
(204 posts)And Food Babe is full of crap.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)denialism against science. She also sells books, recipes and supplements, and has made millions with a lot of followers on places such as facebook.
I would encourage going on her website and reading some of her articles, they are hilarious in how wrong they are.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Obviously.
edhopper
(33,591 posts)to know Astrology is full of shit?
Do I need to be a medical doctor to know the anti-vaxers are nuts?
I hope you haven't posted anything about this election without a degree in political science.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)advice and interests? What's your point?
I think she has a lot of good things to say and shares a lot of common sense.
What she has to say must be working somehow, she's a lot slimmer and healthier than 75% of the US population. Just sayin'.
I totally don't get why anyone would spend time bashing someone they don't know, never will know, and who has no effect on their lives. Not getting that, at all.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Yeah, anti-vaxxing has no effect on our lives.
Good call.
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)keep doing what you do, you're doing fine.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Impressive rejoinder. Short, but pointless.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)When I see a site where someone refers to them selves as a "babe", it automatically loses any sort of credibility with me.