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I listened to this as I made bulgur and heated up homemade stew for my kids’ lunches. I packed them into metal thermoses and sat down to eat some bulgur myself, topped with sauerkraut I made with cabbage from the Amish farm around the corner from my house. I grew up on raw milk, home ground flour, and grass fed meat before it was easy to…
I listened to this as I made bulgur and heated up homemade stew for my kids’ lunches. I packed them into metal thermoses and sat down to eat some bulgur myself, topped with sauerkraut I made with cabbage from the Amish farm around the corner from my house. I grew up on raw milk, home ground flour, and grass fed meat before it was easy to get, and I stick to a lot of those food ways. This movement should be right up my alley. But a lot of the arguments are so superficial, so lacking in nuance or any examination of confirmation bias. Our food system is deeply broken, but the level of pure quackery in this movement ends up discrediting a lot of the helpful things they have to say.
All I could think was that I am more and more convinced across the board, that ideology is so much more powerful than money. And in a climate that is so polarized, both sides of this conversation doubling down on their priors is just making everything dumber. I’m glad The FP did this podcast because I think when you give people like this a platform, they just show how incurious they actually are. They see one thing as bad and so it and all iterations of it must also be bad. We end up with plain old regurgitated naturalistic fallacy with new packaging. When they’re left to their vibes, they can be so compelling. I love crunchy vibes. But I find this movement to dangerously ignore really great science when it doesn’t fit their narrative, and that ends up leaving people without accurate information to make actual informed decisions for their health and goals.