Hari’s superhero origin story is that she came down with appendicitis and didn’t accept the explanation that appendicitis just happens sometimes. So she quit her job as a consultant, attended Google University and transformed herself into an uncredentialed expert in everything she admittedly can’t pronounce. Slap the catchy moniker “Food Babe” on top, throw in a couple of trend stories and some appearances on the Dr. Oz show, and we have the new organic media darling.
I wish someone would hit these idiots with an organic fish. all foods are organic. now if they would say the food was grown without fertilizer or chemicals then they would be correct. heck the cotton in my shorts is organic and that will not change no matter how the cotton was grown.
– And of course the Gawker is an undisputable expert in “full of shit”.
Must be no news of any importance to do hatchet jobs on insignificant targets.
I wish her good luck. She’s going to have to work fast if she wants to make her millions though – after all, the idiots who voted for carbon taxes and brutal hydro bills are running out of disposable income to but her books.
Malathion = organophosphate = nerve poison. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1367841/
Hari’s rule? “If a third grader can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
My rule? Don’t base your diet on the pronunciation skills of an eight-year-old.
More BS. You must one of those who think there are too many people on this earth and want to kill off about 6 billion. Maybe go back to a hundred years ago when 1/3 to 1/2 of all children died during their first few years. I have used and been around this chemical on my crops and yard for over 50 years and if the proper procedures and time frames are used it becomes harmless. More scaremonger BS. I know and have known hundreds of farmers over my farming career and not one has died from any chemical.
Jeesh, as the writer of the article says, paraphrased, it is unbelievable how much total stupidity revolves around food. Murderess Rachel Carsons coming out of a skunk’s rear orifice everywhere. Who feeds this garbage?
Gawker might not be the best source for information but they have it right with this article and also another one linked to about Gluten.
http://foodspin.deadspin.com/what-is-the-deal-with-all-the-gluten-paranoia-america-1651306716
Be sure to read the comments to the Gluten article.
Jamie, exactly
Dr Oz just another wacko idiot with the usial stupid diet rocomondations that push this vaganism crap like a issue of that leftists news rag TIME did a few years ago Dr Oz and his wacko guests and hosts their weirdos like this ding-bat
This “Food Babe” is the Al Sharpton of diet and nutrition.
It’s her own designer shakedown…..
Nope. Actually I’m a farm raised, stanch conservative who believes that the world can hold a lot more people and the human mind is extremely capable of invention and preservation. I’m just a little protective of my health. So getting to the issue, and leaving the insults out of it, what goes into our bodies has a direct affect on our health. Discussions are beneficial so that each may choose what they wish to consume. Thank you for your part in this discussion.
There wasa study done a few years ago that said a strict vegan diet may cuase a spersons braiin to shrink that explains why PETA is always pulling off idiotic stunts all the time and gets the usial hollywood idiots to support them
Good grief. I hope she has never eaten a carrot. Organic or otherwise. They are pure poison. Surprised we are not all dead.
http://stoneglasgow.blogspot.ca/2011/03/carrots-contain-chemicals-used-in.html
Sorry. I did not mean to insult you personally, just all this unadulterated misinformation and outright lying pushed by the snake oil organic crowd. The sad part is that so many otherwise bright people believe this bunk. See PeterJ’s post and link @ 1:30. Even organic wheat has four naturally occurring carcinogens.
Malathion has been used safely for a half century.
Is saline a chemical? She certainly has enough of that in her body.
I am guessing Aunt J. would not know a toxic chemical if it jumped up
and bit her on the ass! There is no evidence that Malathion is in
any way toxic, let alone a “Nerve poison!”
I have been exposed to nearly every chemical compound one can imagine,
and have never suffered a single ill effect in my 40+ years in heavy
industry. I even snorted a brick of Chrysotile Asbestos like it was
cocaine in order to point out to a coworker how benign the substance
was.
40 years of drinking like a Roughneck and smoking like a locomotive
has on the other hand, done some SERIOUS damage! This was the real
cause of the health problems suffered by Asbestos miners in the 20th
century. Nearly every swinging dick in those mines was a heavy
smoker, just like lumberjacks, Roughnecks, Millwrights, miners and
steel workers.
I would advise the lady to read Elizabeth Whelan’s Toxic Terror!
Look up Center of Consumer Freeom(CCF)and find out the truth about these food scolds and phonie diet freakos like Dr Oz and company
Peter j, you’re right about carrots. Why, I once saw a guy with carrotted arteries. It was awful.