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But that lack of training often leads her to misinterpret peer-reviewed research and technical details about food chemistry, nutrition and health, says Kevin Folta, a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida and vocal online critic of Hari. "She really conflates the science," he tells The Salt.
"If anything, she's created more confusion about food, more confusion about the role of chemicals and additives," Folta says.
More recently, as we've reported, Hari's attacks on the lack of pumpkin in Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice lattes prompted the Institute of Food Technologists to release a video explaining the chemicals that replicate that squash flavor in a cup of Joe.
"What she does is exploit the scientific ignorance and fear of her followers," says Kavin Senapathy, an anti-pseudoscience blogger who frequently challenges the assertions in Hari's posts. "And most of us are in agreement that we simply can't accept that."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
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(7,234 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)I love people who complain about chemicals in their foods as if chemicals are bad, without chemical reactions, you would be dead, without chemicals in foods, you would be dead, indeed, there is little, if anything that is associated with matter in general that isn't also chemical in nature.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)And when we do, we will be in horror of these creations.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)history, at least 100,000 years of it, these chemicals don't appear to be as devastating as we first thought.
Are all chemicals safe for human consumption? No, and are all food additives properly tested, again, no, but they should be. The problem is that people like the Food Babe use scaremongering, without facts, and indeed in contradiction of the facts, to push their own agenda.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Heart disease, high cholesterol, high stress lives......many people are not living quality lives.
I think alex jones and crew are scare-mongers who take nibbles of truths and turn them in to Conspiraville.
But to say man-made chemicals are not much of a problem is severely minimizing a serious problem. That has been a good avenue for the chemical companies since they must turn absurd profits at all cost to life.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)not poison falsities made by man.
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)What do you use to wash your hands with? Clean your floors with? How do you travel to work? What do you sleep on? What do you wear on your feet?
On edit: we are, ourselves, evolved from Nature. What most mean when they refer to 'Nature' is animalistic, unthinking behavior. We are not unthinking animals. That's both our downfall and our saving grace.
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)All this man-made crap has led to the poisoning of our water, air, soil, food. The species we are causing to go extinct every day. The imbalance to our atmosphere. WTF!
Until we STOP defending this crap and take a hard honest look at what we are doing to our earth, the situation man has created will continue to get worse.
Smugness will not fix anything.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Now I can hardly get through one day without getting my fix, and every person I know that tried to kick the habit is dead.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)I wonder...if she's gotten famous by referring to azodicarbonamide-containing baked goods as "yoga mat bread," should we tell her all the industrial uses of acetic acid, sodium bicarbonate and table salt?
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I don't trust her. I trust authorities on this subject. She is not in my opinion an authority.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)In reading this, I don't think I will concern myself with her.