Insufferable Food Babe Blogger Becomes Even More Insufferable (She's Pregnant)...

[HuckleB]

http://foodbabe.com/2016/07/18/secret/

"...

When I looked at my husband and said I was ready, things happened quick. BOOM. I was pregnant. I honestly couldn’t believe it – I thought it would take a long time considering all the pregnancy stories and experiences I have heard about with loved ones and close friends, but I am incredibly grateful that it happened so easily for us. We are truly blessed – I can’t help but think the years of getting my health to its optimal state had to help – practicing my healthy habits, regular acupuncture and staying away from processed food!

(That's right, an anecdote proves that her health being in an "optimal state" is why she got pregnant quickly. Not only that, but acupuncture must have a had something to do with it, plausibility be damned.)

...

Now that I am pregnant – wow – have my eating habits changed. First of all, not in a million years did I think I would ever crave Taco Bell again. But it happened. I was walking by one on the way to another restaurant and I could literally taste a chicken soft taco and bean burrito in my mouth. Of course I didn’t get any – But man! It was the weirdest sensation I have ever experienced, especially considering I haven’t eaten at Taco Bell since it was like 2am in the morning and I was in college.

And then Burger King happened. Yes. That nasty excuse for food. I was in Spain (of all places!) promoting the Spanish version of The Food Babe Way and was stuck in an airport terminal with the smell of charbroiled hamburgers radiating the whole waiting area. I thought I was going to DIE if I didn’t have one. But thankfully my years of personal investigation and study of food toxins and industrial factory farming kept me FAR FAR away – there was no way I was going to feed my growing baby that tainted meat on that processed to death sesame seed bun!

(Yup. The silly hyperbole will only get even more over the top now. Taco Bell and Burger King will kill your unborn child like that, don't you know! WOW! )

...

I have heard most mamas stop enjoying green vegetables during this time – thankfully that is not the case for me, I still LOVE kale and all things green (with a slice of hot cheese pizza please – haha). Actually my Melt In Your Mouth Kale Salad has been on serious repeat lately and is the one dish that doesn’t give me the pregnancy burbs! I’ll be sharing some more of the comfort food recipes I’ve been making soon.

(That's right. The great researcher "heard" ... And, yes, only food marketed as organic under her name will save her child, and your child, too!)

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Hey, we all need some laughs this week, and this fear-mongering money-grubbing scam artist has gifted us a few.

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, honey, sex had nothing to do with it.

Unless she's managed to scam enough to hire a nanny, once the kid is born we'll see a lot less of her rubbish.

[HuckleB]

11. Oh, fear sells! She has plenty for more than one nanny.

It's amazing how easy it is to con people out of their hard earned money.

[womanofthehills]

20. Nice, positive post.

[Warpy]

29. It is. Babies change your life

and maybe this one will change hers for the better.

[HuckleB]

30. Oh, but there's the organic, toxin-free pre-school fund.

And then there's the necessary bubble to keep the kid away from all vaccinated children.

That stuff is not cheap. Many more lies will need to be promoted to pay for this child.

[Different Drummer]

2. Only one thing to say about that...

[linuxman]

3. I'm out of the loop.

Why do people dislike her? Why would a child make a person I don't personally deal with more insufferable?

[HuckleB]

4. Because she works to scare people from perfectly good food in order to con them...

... into buying ludicrously expensive food that she makes money off of, one way or another. And that's just for starters.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

[womanofthehills]

5. Total lie - she has been instrumental in removing food additives from the American diet

I have no idea why you would dislike a woman who has been responsible for for pushing corporations to take additives, hormones and unnecessary chemicals out of the food supply. You seem think this is a bad thing. It makes no sense. Why do you want additives in your food? So you dislike her because she got Papa John's Pizza to take artificial colors, sodium benzoate, and hidden msg out of their food. Does it upset you that McDonalds will be using real butter rather than transfats?

Working with other groups and bloggers, Vani's (The Food Babe) successes (shortened) from her web page:

[HuckleB]

6. Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!

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She has blackmailed a few stupid companies into removing completely safe ingredients.

She is a scam artist of the worst kind. Your continued defense of her is very telling. Thanks for showing up to confess!

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

Many of her claims are not supported by the actual story, but you know that and you don't care.

[womanofthehills]

14. All you ever have is the corporate funded shill site "sciencebased medicine"

Run by "Orac", David Gorsky. Shows you how freaked out corporations are about the Food Babe.

[HuckleB]

15. All you ever do is make baseless claims about good scientists.

SBM is not corporate funded. It is not a shill site. And David Gorski is a good doctor and scientist.

You should be ashamed to push the ugly nonsense you do about such a worthy site.

Of course, you can't debunk anything that is posted on that site, which shows everyone the reality. So, again, thanks for your confessions.

[womanofthehills]

23. Right wing site

[HuckleB]

24. Wrong again. It's not ok to make such false portrayals.

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Very, very wrong. And once again, you fail to show that there is anything wrong with any of the content at SBM.

Do you have any sense of decency?

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-science-based-medicine/

PS: Anything but right wing: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/tag/donald-trump/

[HuckleB]

79. A well-respected science-based site.

http://nymag.com/thecut/swellness/2016/07/can-wellness-be-scientific.html

Check the recommended pages at the end.

[snooper2]

35. They better be freaked out, did you see where she got her degree from?

"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."

[HuckleB]

8. More Food Babe Quackery ...

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

[HuckleB]

10. Food Babe Is A Fraud...

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

[Gormy Cuss]

33. Have you seen independent corroboration of her claims?

Even I can see that she plays fast and loose with the facts, to wit:

Take, for example, Hari's campaign urging beer-makers to reveal the ingredients in their brews. Among the ingredients that concerned Hari was propylene glycol, a chemical used in antifreeze. But, as cancer surgeon and blogger David Gorski writes, the product used in some beers to stabilize foam is actually propylene glycol alginate — which is derived from kelp. "It is not the same chemical as propylene glycol, not even close. It is not antifreeze," he wrote.

I rarely agree with HuckleB on food fights but I do here. "Food babe" is at best a piss poor investigator, at worst a self-promoter whose idea of investigation is "whatever."

[randome]

38. I didn't realize she was such a quack until recently.

The telling point is that most of her claims are unsupported by other -real- scientists.
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[womanofthehills]

12. You are not out of the loop. Some people on DU dislike people who recommend eating organically.

She is also against GMO's , so they hate her for that. Vani Hari ,The Food Babe, with the help of her bloggers and activist groups has forced many corporations to take additives out of our food supply. The corporations hate her and have paid shills big time to discredit her. Vani was overweight with health problems before she changed her way of eating. Some pictures of Vani Hari: (You can see how bad and mean she is (not) and the bitch is having a baby).

[HuckleB]

13. ROFL! True progressives despise fear mongering con artists like the Food Babe.

Why would anyone support this scam artist?

Thanks for the kicks!

http://www.chicagonow.com/interesting-chicago/2015/04/the-food-babe-an-expert-with-no-expertise/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

[womanofthehills]

16. So suggesting people eat healthy food has become "fear mongering"

We all know you love gmo's and glyphosate. Why do care what we eat?

[HuckleB]

17. She's not suggesting people eat healthy food.

She is working to keep them away from most heathy foods with baseless fear mongering in order to con them into buying her ludicrously priced crap.

You would know that if you bothered to read any of the links about her scams.

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

BTW, your lies about GMOs and myself are still lame.

Do you have any sense of decency?

[womanofthehills]

19. All your links are corporate

[HuckleB]

21. No, they're not. They are, however, all scientifically literate.

Food Babe is a corporate shill. It's her whole gig.

PS: Still not right wing in any way, shape. or form.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/05/03/the-republican-party-is-on-the-verge-of-nominating-an-antivaccine-loon-named-donald-trump/

Do you have any sense of decency?

[womanofthehills]

25. Violenmetaphors.com - give me a break????

why are you always posting corporate funded sites on DU?

[HuckleB]

26. Why are you repeatedly making ludicrous, baseless attacks?

Oh, that's right. It's because you can't actually support your claims with actual science. And, interestingly, you mention only one of multiple sources. Hmm.



BTW, Violent Metaphors fights pseudoscience, which is something all good progressives should be doing.

Why are you supporting a scam artist whose ignorance and dishonesty are simply despicable?

Next.

[snooper2]

36. OMG she is a complete fucking idiot...You should research idiots before you defend them

Like this "article" she scrubbed from her website but has been saved forever thanks to the intertubes...

I guess if someone has no more than an eighth grade education they might fall for her shit

Check these fine passages-


"A few facts about what airplanes do to your body -

When your body is in the air, at a seriously high altitude, your body under goes some serious pressure. Just think about it – Airplanes thrive in places we don’t. You are traveling in a pressurized cabin, and when your body is pressurized, it gets really compressed!"



MORE

"The air you are breathing on an airplane is recycled from directly outside of your window. That means you are breathing everything that the airplanes gives off and is flying through. The air that is pumped in isn’t pure oxygen either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%. To pump a greater amount of oxygen in costs money in terms of fuel and the airlines know this! The nitrogen may affect the times and dosages of medications, make you feel bloated and cause your ankles and joints swell."



MORE

And my favorite line---

Choose a seat as close to the front as possible. Pilots control the amount of airflow and it is is always better in their cabin.




http://www.freezepage.com/1415667665TBMRBWICKU

[MadrasT]

47. OMG

That is priceless.

[Kali]

54. OMG

[PasadenaTrudy]

7. Ugh

Sounds like a friend of mine who is sure the reason she had a completely smooth menopause was because of years of acupuncture treatments.

[womanofthehills]

18. Actually, eating well when you are pregnant is better for your baby

[HuckleB]

22. Acupuncture has nothing to do with eating well.

Do you even read the posts to which you respond?

[womanofthehills]

27. Yawn

[HuckleB]

28. Whoops. You got caught, and you pretend it doesn't matter.

[Orrex]

34. It's even better than that

I experienced no menopause symptoms after simply reading about acupuncture.

[Kali]

53. Bwahhahahah!!!

[Dr. Strange]

75. You know...

ever since I read about the fact that you read about acupuncture, I haven't experienced any menopause symptoms either!

I'm should report this to naturalnews and other greatly respected science websites.

[miyazaki]

9. Meh. Del Taco, much better. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

31. has anyone ever eaten taco bell when not inebriated?

That's a serious question. I know I never did.

[HuckleB]

32. That is a big part of their business, I'm sure.

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[Kali]

55. hey their crunchy tacos (add onions) aren't that bad!

probably a hair healthier than a cheap cheeseburger at some other drive-through.

[Warren DeMontague]

74. I stopped eating anything like that around the same time I gave up booze.

Cheeseburgers, too, for that matter. Although I admit to still having been occasionally tempted when driving past an In-and-Out.

But I suspect there is some equation, some provable mathematical relationship between blood alcohol level and the people at the Taco Bell at 3AM. At least with me, that was how it worked. But oh boy, that open late shit was a godsend, in those situations.

[OriginalGeek]

78. I love Taco Bell

when I'm constipated. Hasn't failed me yet. And WAY cheaper than ExLax.

[kcr]

37. She totally had some of that Taco Bell

Those cravings aren't a joke.

[HuckleB]

39. LOL! My wife sent me to the store for these:

http://www.steakumm.com

[kcr]

42. I sent mine to the store for an actual steak

He was confused. Steak? As in Outback? I told him I'd cook it, but I wanted steak right now, drowning in A-1 sauce.

[HuckleB]

45. Nice!

[underahedgerow]

62. Nom, nom! Chopped and formed emulsified meat product!

comprised of beef trimmings left over after an animal is slaughtered and all of the primary cuts, such as tenderloin, filet, and rib eye, are removed ... The emulsified meat is pressed into a loaf and sliced, frozen and packaged.

Sounds delish!

[HuckleB]

63. Yes, it does.

PS:

To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that Food Babe pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[underahedgerow]

66. Is this like an MRA thing, but against healthy eating food bloggers?

I am so not getting what you're defending here.

[HuckleB]

69. I'm merely noting one of the world's current scam artists.

Why are you defending someone who is so ludicrous and unethical?

To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that Food Babe pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[underahedgerow]

40. I don't see how encouraging people to eat healthy, to actually LOOK at the ingredients in their

food, learn about them and then make better food choices, is a bad thing.

Maybe it's just me, but I can see that nearly 70% of Americans can benefit from doing such crazy and insane stuff, such as not drinking soda, eating actual fresh fruit and vegetables and much less meat, and not eating processed junk food crap during their 12 meals a day.

More than 2 in 3 adults reading this are considered to be overweight or obese.
More than 1 in 3 adults reading this considered to be obese.
More than 1 in 20 adults reading this are considered to have extreme obesity.
About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese.
More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.

She's definitely not encouraging anything foolish, and while she may not be a board certified scientist or doctor, it doesn't take an idiot to know that anything with a list of unpronounceable ingredients is pretty much toxic, nutrition-less crap. If her choice of narrative or information delivery method works for anyone in taking steps towards achieving a healthy, chemical free and lower weight life, then yee hah, let her have at it.

So her choice of sharing this information isn't hurting anyone, except perhaps the giant corporations who pay billions of bucks to shovel their adverts down the throats of people too lazy to get up off their butts from in front of their teevees.

Sour grapes? Bitter pill? Whatever, get over it. Why would you bash people who are doing something positive and life changing that benefits others?

[HuckleB]

41. That has nothing to do with the scams pushed by Food Babe.

If you bothered to read, you would know that she pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

[underahedgerow]

43. So who is she hurting, by promoting a healthy eating lifestyle? Are you really worried about the

fate of Kraft foods?

[HuckleB]

44. She is not promoting a healthy eating lifestyle.

She is promoting ignorance, chemophobia, and science denial, and she depends on the ignorance of others to make her money. She is a scam artist, and the fact that you don't seem to care about that is quite interesting. Well, not really, but it is telling.

http://www.bodyforwife.com/which-is-worse-food-babe-or-food-poisoning/

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/02/12/the-food-babe-there-is-just-no-acceptable-level-of-any-chemical-to-ingest-ever/

This has nothing to do with companies I don't care about. The existence of those companies, does not justify Food Babe's lies, deceit, and constant despicable behavior. It's all well documented, and you've been shown where.

THE FOOD BABE WAY: 21 DAYS TO AN EATING DISORDER
http://www.scibabe.com/foodbabeway/

Why would you defend the indefensible?

You owe yourself and everyone else an apology.

[underahedgerow]

48. That's the type of 'ignorance' I can live with. OH MY GAWD she has ZUCCHINI RECIPES

on her front page! That's just shameful.

Worse, is her work against Monsanto and GMO foods. What a total loser she is! Frankly, I find her recipes for all things sweet potato to be subversive and undermining the entire premise (and profits) upon which Lil Debbie sells her ring dings.

This woman has no shame. She's a witch. Burn her at the stake!

Sarcasm off, I think she's absolutely right in pretty much everything she's championing and exposing. She's doing just fine. Blowing the tops off the corporations intent on profiting from your ill-health by shoving their crap, lies and deceit down everyone's throat, literally, is downright heroic. No wonder the giant corps are scared out of their wits.

But go ahead and hit up Taco Bell! Go ahead and suck down gallons of cows milk laced with antibiotics, yum! Nibble on those grapes (they're fresh though, be careful) filled with toxic pesticides. Make a HUGE sandwich out of plastic bread, fake mayo consisting of nothing but chemicals, lettuce soaked in urine, and tomatoes covered in pesticides, and bacon made from tortured, factory farmed pigs who live their entire lives in cages and stuffed with hormones and antibiotics. Sounds Yummy!

I don't eat fake food. I buy fresh, eat small portions and rarely eat meat. I bake cakes, cookies, make my own ice cream, my own pasta, when so inclined, and only buy fresh bread. I make my own sauces, from alfredo to hollandaise, buy eggs from local farmers and only use milk in my coffee, tea and in baking. I don't drink fruit juice or soda, I drink water or wine. Or booze. I like booze in small amounts...

Why do I do all this? BECAUSE THESE ARE THE HEALTHY CHOICES that I make. I know if I can't pronounce it, it's fake. I like real food. Nothing I buy can use a coupon, because it's not fake.

And BTW, American beers suck. European beers rock, especially Belgian. Trappist monks are very cool.

Thanks for turning me on to her site, that looks like a great source of information to share!

[HuckleB]

49. So you choose to ignore the mass of ignorance and unhealthy nonsense that she promotes.

And you choose to think that a few recipes makes all that anti-science scam artist nonsense go away.

FOOD BABE’S BULLSHIT HABITS
http://www.scibabe.com/food-babes-bullshit-habits/

The Food Babe is a Raving Lunatic
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/the-food-babe-is-a-raving-lunatic-1685840128

More nonsense pushed by the Food Babe
http://www.refinery29.com/2015/04/83207/the-food-babe-way-book-review-science-facts

Guess what? The Internet is filled with great recipes, offered by people who don't promote scams, and who don't work to scam people into buying products from corporations who pay them to promote them, like Food Babe does.

You have been shown the reality, but you don't care. Scam artists must be just fine by you, or so it appears from your posts here.

Oh, and you clearly already knew about her scam page, or you wouldn't have bothered to defend the indefensible. In fact, one has to wonder exactly why you would defend something so ludicrous. Hmm.

It's not ok.

Ethics matter.

[Hortensis]

46. But is she? Is Newt Gingrich doing a public service by

by pushing an herbal mix as a cancer cure because "some people" say it works? Anything wrong with offering people worried about pain and losing weight but suspicious of mainstream medicine an "alternative" to going to the doctor for diagnosis and treatment?

How about the gay conversion therapies Bachmann's husband promoted at great expense? If someone says it worked for him, does that make selling them, despite the fact that they're proven to be quackery that harms a lot of people, okay?

This woman is accused of pushing nutrition/food therapies without scientific basis, perhaps not as dangerous as the examples above but still quackery if true.

[underahedgerow]

50. I might have to respectfully say that recipes and healthy lifestyle choices aren't exactly

as horrific as gay conversion therapy and snake oil cancer cures.

She has a great site with lots of super info, stuff one may not have thought of about basic lifestyle and healthy eating choices. Have a look, she's kinda cool.

[Orrex]

51. She's not "kinda cool." She's full of shit.

And she's making a ton of money from her credulous fanbase that dismisses all criticism no matter how factual nor well-documented. She's full of shit, and they love her for being full of shit.

She pushes that same fear-mongering bullshit that's so appealing to the silly "detox" crowd, and she's either grossly ignorant of science or else she's deliberately spewing nonsense.

Claiming that "she's kinda cool" because her website has zucchini recipes is a sort of reverse strawman: you find a small part of her media package that isn't a load of shit, and you offer it up as proof that she's great. You are free to believe her marketing slogans, but you're still buying into bullshit.

Here's a nice summation, as a matter of fact.

[underahedgerow]

57. I totally disagree. She has a lot of important information about the crap going into the food

supply that ends up on your table, and she's RIGHT.

Not sure what the jones is on about with a few people bagging on her, but she's got good, correct information about things we should be worried and encouraging awareness about. I can't join the bashing parade!

That she dares to make a profit, oh the horror! Shame on her! She should be doing it for free and living in a van instead.

So what if people are doing faddy 'detox' stuff? So WHAT? At least they're not filling their bodies with garbage and toxic chemicals, and ending up like the more than 60% of the people in the USA that are overweight.

It's not bullshit to promote healthy eating, awareness of the toxicity of most of the commercial artificial food on the shop shelves, and to raise awareness of the cancer, obesity and disease causing crap Americans are happily stuffing themselves with.

And yeah, Gawker. How is their appeal in the defamation lawsuit going? Not exactly a 'spotlight' type piece of journalistic integrity in that company there.

She's doing good work, unless you can actually show what harm she's doing?

[HuckleB]

59. You seem to think that it's ok to promote a scam artist whose fictions are well known.

Ethics matter. Your defense of this despicable, debunked con artist is very sad. Or are you going to prove to us that lying as she does about so many things is ethical and great for everyone?

To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that she pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[Orrex]

61. No, she's full of shit.

Her bullshit about the Subway/yoga-mat controversy should tell you all that you need to know.

She's full of shit, and her acolytes swallow it.

So what if people are doing faddy 'detox' stuff? So WHAT?

Because it's meaningless and, except under rare and very specific medical conditions, it gives no actual benefit that the liver and kidneys don't already provide.

awareness of the toxicity

Define "toxicity" in scientifically meaningful terms. That means terms that aren't defined by such bullshit peddlers as The Food Babe, Deepak Chopra or Andrew Weil.

She's doing good work, unless you can actually show what harm she's doing?

She's profiting handsomely from the spread of ignorance and bullshit, which in itself is harmful.

She's also convinced presumably functional adults that she's not full of shit, and she's enlisted them in her campaign of bullshit, so she's done them a great disservice as well.

[HuckleB]

52. If she was promoting healthy lifestyle choices, you might have a point. She is not.

She is promoting ignorance, pseudoscience, and nonsense. And you have been shown that reality. It's a reality that is well known, so the question is: Why are you choosing to ignore it?

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[underahedgerow]

58. No, she's not. Her information, for being a non-scientist, is pretty accurate. Sure, there's a few

slip ups in terms of chemical names, and yeah, it happens. But there's no such thing as bad publicity.

By and large, most of her site is focused on awareness, healthy choices and eating real food instead of the toxic crap being rammed down your throats by the giant corporations.

Who is being harmed in all of her transgressions?

[HuckleB]

60. Not even close! Food Babe pushes nonsense regularly, and that has been shown.

Your decision to pretend otherwise is just bizarre. There are good sources of information around. There is no reason to waste time on scam artists like Food Babe. (Thanks for the kicks, btw!)

To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that she pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[underahedgerow]

64. And again I ask, what harm is she doing by raising awareness of the toxic crap being

branded and sold as 'food'?

She's skinny, unlike nearly 70% of Americans. She's making healthy choices in food and lifestyle. Seriously, who is she harming? What's the negative impact on anyone eating something with the label 'organic' on it?

[HuckleB]

67. And, again, your red herring nonsense has been debunked, over and over again.

You can pretend that it hasn't all you want. The anecdote about her weight is not evidence for anything, btw.

Why do you think it's ok to defend this scam artist? Why do you spend time defending someone so incredibly unethical? Someone who attacks good, honest scientists in order to foment baseless fear, and keep her minions both ignorant and willing to buy her expensive crap? Someone who promotes the most ridiculous pseudoscience on a daily basis? Someone who pushes her minions to buy ridiculously expensive food products for no good reason other than it lines her pockets? Someone who has been shown to be nothing but a scam artist, period?

Why?

To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that Food Babe pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[underahedgerow]

71. What scam? She found a niche, she provides good information and promotes healthy lifestyle

choices and eating.

She's attacking those corporate scientists? Oh noooooes. Yeah, I feel sorry for the guys who claim that aspartame is perfectly good for you. Cigarettes are too, btw, cause, you know, scientists used to say they were a healthy lifestyle choice.

No scam artist, just a blogger who's built a good web page filled with, by and large, good information. That's the American way, find a niche and fill it, and make money. She's self employed, conveying good info and healthy lifestyle info and making money.

Wish I'd thought of it!

[HuckleB]

72. Wow! You truly haven't bothered to read anything about the con artist in question. Nice confession.

Just wow!

That is some delusion you are offering here. You do realize that everyone who clicks on this OP is going to note this, right?

BTW, a basic definition of scam is: a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people.

You have been shown that Food Babe does just that on a regular basis. Whoops.



To repeat:

If you bothered to read, you would know that Food Babe pushes almost nothing but baseless fear mongering. She is scientifically illiterate, and completely unethical. There is no excuse for defending her actions. Her entire act is aimed at nothing but increasing her wealth. You can make baseless posts about corporations, but her behavior is nothing but corporate like.

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-the-jenny-mccarthy-of-food/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/making-ones-own-reality-food-babe-edition/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-chemicals-heats-up-again/

https://violentmetaphors.com/2015/04/10/why-the-food-babe-is-wrong-its-not-just-because-shes-ignorant/

http://sciencemeetsfood.org/open-letter-to-food-babe/

http://deadstate.org/this-interview-did-not-go-too-well-for-the-food-babe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-about-science

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/eating-yoga-mats/

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_food_babe_a_taste_of_her_own_medicine

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Food_Babe

http://www.mnfarmliving.com/2014/08/10-things-wish-food-babe-knew.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics

http://news.health.com/2015/04/10/vani-hari-food-babe-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.inverse.com/article/7906-q-a-kavin-senapathy-on-science-shaming-the-fear-mongering-food-babe

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2014/09/is-food-babe-a-fraud/

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/

[Orrex]

68. To hell with you and your facts!!!!!1!

[HuckleB]

70. Apparently.

This is funny. Sad, but funny.

[Kali]

56. I don't agree.

pushing ignorance and stupidity in the guise of eating better isn't really that helpful. we have scientific literacy and critical thinking problem in this country at least as serious as the nutritional/obesity problem.

[REP]

65. Great point

I have the feeling that the marketing of "organic" and "GMO free" as the only healthy food may be leading some people to believe organic Cheezy Poufs are a better choice than conventional vegetables.

[GoCubsGo]

73. I automatically ignore anyone who self-annoints themselves as some sort of "babe."

I know I'm in for some sort of narcissist-fest. Thanks, but no thanks.

[LisaM]

76. LOL.

This is great stuff.

[HuckleB]

77. .