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(46,337 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:08 PM Aug 2016

Vani Hari (food babe) is a total kook.

Article here...

#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

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Vani Hari (food babe) is a total kook. (Original Post) Archae Aug 2016 OP
Her laughingly ignorant rant about air travel (which she deleted of course)... trotsky Aug 2016 #1
Aha - the regularly scheduled Food Babe Beatdown RapSoDee Aug 2016 #2
So you think it's good that she tries selling products to people that she says are dangerous? Lancero Aug 2016 #4
Yeah, and Alex Jones is just advocating for government transparency... Humanist_Activist Aug 2016 #5
A kook is a kook. Archae Aug 2016 #8
Hey, could you send me a PM if you don't see an OP bashing this food idiot in October? snooper2 Aug 2016 #14
"There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever." Act_of_Reparation Aug 2016 #16
Yes, it all seems well timed and part of a regularly scheduled program. You're totally underahedgerow Aug 2016 #21
Wonder what her opinion is on the most dangerous chemical of em all, DHMO? Lancero Aug 2016 #3
What's hilarious? Flu shots are not effective for most people. Yet the flu shots people make a underahedgerow Aug 2016 #20
She lives by two or three basic premises that are hilarious in hindsight... Humanist_Activist Aug 2016 #6
She doesn't understand basic science and she's not smart enough to care: cpwm17 Aug 2016 #7
Babe, as in Baby Huey? n/t miyazaki Aug 2016 #9
Your degree in nutrition came from where again? flvegan Aug 2016 #10
I do have a degree in nutrition Emilybemily Aug 2016 #11
Its about a woman who was in marketing that decided to market her own type of... Humanist_Activist Aug 2016 #12
"No idea who or what this is about" Act_of_Reparation Aug 2016 #15
o I need a degree in Astrophysics edhopper Aug 2016 #17
She's a huckster. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #13
What is this in relevence to? Are you warning the uninformed masses of DU against her underahedgerow Aug 2016 #18
"Has no effect on their lives" Act_of_Reparation Aug 2016 #19
blah blah blah. One note song. underahedgerow Aug 2016 #22
OH SNAP Act_of_Reparation Aug 2016 #23
Nothing sreams "narcissist" like calling oneself a "babe." GoCubsGo Aug 2016 #24

RapSoDee

(421 posts)
2. Aha - the regularly scheduled Food Babe Beatdown
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:13 PM
Aug 2016

...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)
4. So you think it's good that she tries selling products to people that she says are dangerous?
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:21 PM
Aug 2016

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)
5. Yeah, and Alex Jones is just advocating for government transparency...
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:23 PM
Aug 2016

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.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
14. Hey, could you send me a PM if you don't see an OP bashing this food idiot in October?
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:22 AM
Aug 2016

Just give me a heads up and I'll take it from there

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
16. "There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever."
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:27 AM
Aug 2016

- Vani Hari

Sounds like someone who knows what they're talking about...

underahedgerow

(1,232 posts)
21. Yes, it all seems well timed and part of a regularly scheduled program. You're totally
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:34 AM
Aug 2016

right. I can't figure out what this agenda is.....

Lancero

(3,004 posts)
3. Wonder what her opinion is on the most dangerous chemical of em all, DHMO?
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:17 PM
Aug 2016

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)
20. What's hilarious? Flu shots are not effective for most people. Yet the flu shots people make a
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:31 AM
Aug 2016

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)
6. She lives by two or three basic premises that are hilarious in hindsight...
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:44 PM
Aug 2016

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!

flvegan

(64,409 posts)
10. Your degree in nutrition came from where again?
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:55 PM
Aug 2016

Just curious.

LOL, waves.

No idea who or what this is about, just find accusations funny.

 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
12. Its about a woman who was in marketing that decided to market her own type of...
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:21 AM
Aug 2016

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.

edhopper

(33,591 posts)
17. o I need a degree in Astrophysics
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:45 AM
Aug 2016

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.

underahedgerow

(1,232 posts)
18. What is this in relevence to? Are you warning the uninformed masses of DU against her
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:25 AM
Aug 2016

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.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
24. Nothing sreams "narcissist" like calling oneself a "babe."
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:58 AM
Aug 2016

When I see a site where someone refers to them selves as a "babe", it automatically loses any sort of credibility with me.

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