To this day I try to follow his ‘only eat food with ingredients ur grandparent would recognize’ rule and just recently quoted info from his sugar fat salt book.
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It is extremely disappointing and angering to see somebody that influences what i fucking EAT for godsake, supporting an extremist lying grifter bcz he mouth vomits words that Pollan likes.
I'm telling you. when i say that the alternative health community got radicalized BIG time by covid, i'm not kidding. Out of all the communities i'm a part of, that community got radicalized the fastest and to the most extreme.
I feel like COVID really accelerated and completed a process that was well underway at that point: NaturalNews going full mask-off fascist during the 2016 election was a huge turning point.
i mean, that fuck used to berate food justice organizers as extreme and that nobody is going to make that kind of changes in their lives, so that's why i can't do more than push for people to vote with the dollars.
Sadly that world is dead, the more grueling task now is in figuring out how to rebuild a more sane world again, gonna have to dumb everything down for the low info voters. But I do not have much hope/optimism. Human societies tend to go bonkers more the population grows, prime examples from history.
For people that asked, this is all on Twitter. In fairness to pollan, he didn’t write the original linked article, in fairness to me, the last tweet where he says all credit needs to go to trump and RFK for making this. National issue is absolute garbage.
Is this what he's saying: "We can't use politics to make producers change their behavior. Individuals should change their behavior. But we should use politics to force individuals to change their behavior."
i saw pollan talk at berkeley when i was in grad school and a mild comment on the absence of any consideration of labor issues in his work sent him into full meltdown. i know he tried to redress some of that blindness later in his career but it was telling
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I'm sick of all of this bizarro world bullshit. somebody get me back to the real world.