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Food Shaming Is Common - And It Should Stop

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
May 3, 2022
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 05/03/2022 - 10:29
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It’s not socially acceptable to shame people on race, religion, or sexual orientation but an entire industry has been built around shaming pregnant women for what they eat or if they use cleaning chemicals that trial lawyer groups claim might be 'endocrine disrupting' chemicals.

Food bullying is common now and we can thank marketing groups for perpetuating it. They will pressure people by getting one n a group to believe $8-a-gallon milk with an "organic" label is healthier than $4-a-gallon milk. The somewhat ridiculous Non-GMO Project has gotten over 60,000 products to pay for their label when only a handful of things are actually made using modern science like genetic modification.

Food is the one place where "Mean Girls" culture is still cool, where bullying is how you show your privilege without guilt. 

Michele Payn takes it to task.

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