A reader alerted me to a new cause by the food crook, Vani Hari. According to her website she targeted Chick -fil-A for her latest shake down. Chick-fil-A is a private company so we’ll never know how much money changed hands. The company may have been willing to give her a press release she can post on her website. This is the sort of thing that gets the suckers buying her crap and reading her website. Vani is mostly an attention whore hoping to parlay her quackery and exotic looks into TV gigs. She certainly knows nothing about food science, based on the bullshit she posts on her site. This from her latest post on bread:

Bread is a really hot topic and is targeted as the root of many health problems. Overall, bread gets a bad reputation because grains are not easy for your body to digest, can overwork your pancreatic enzymes, contain the anti-nutrient phytic acid and an abundance of dreaded gluten. Also, our wheat crops in this country have been through some serious genetic manipulation to make them profitable for the food industry and less healthy for us.

First off, grains are no more or less easy to digest than anything else. There are things in food our body does not break down. These are passed out in the process scientists call taking a dump. Second, there is no such thing as “overwork your pancreatic enzymes.” She just made that up or thought it sounded scary and decided to borrow it. The real knee slapper is “contain the anti-nutrient phytic acid and an abundance of dreaded gluten.” Every food huckster latches onto scare words and throws them around to sound sincere. Anti-nutrients are in all of our food. Cooking breaks them down, making it easier for us to absorb nutrients from food. I bet she thinks “antinutrient” means it actually takes away nutrients from our system, like some sort microbial vampire.

Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows the gluten free craze is a fad, not science. I regularly give gluten-free friends food loaded with gluten, telling them it is gluten free. I’m a good liar and they want to believe me. So far, none of them have died or reported any problems. In one case, one asked me where I got the gluten-laden snack they thought was so yummy. The fact that all of them suddenly became intolerant of gluten last week says something about the power of belief. These are bright, educated people. Yet they fall for bullshit like Vani peddles.

Ripping off the believer is the third oldest profession, right behind prostitution and politics. A pest like Vani, however, can cause real damage. Her shakedown of Chik-fil-A is a good example.

During my meeting with them back in October 2012, we discussed a laundry list of concerns I had with their menu items – everything from MSG in their famous sandwich, to artificial food dyes, to TBHQ, and GMOs. During our discussion in their boardroom, they asked me to prioritize the list of requests. I told them eliminating artificial food dyes would be a quick change to implement, but my number one request on the list was to provide safer and more sustainable chicken that is raised without antibiotics and GMO feed.

Even though they are not going fully organic or non-GMO, this commitment is significant. This will help to reduce the common practice of using antibiotics to quickly fatten chickens and keep them “healthy” in unsafe conditions. This is important because the more we use antibiotics in our environment, the less impact they will have on us when it comes to treating certain superbugs. The widespread use of antibiotics in animal feed is responsible for creating new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, that could, frankly, wipe out the human race if we don’t start doing something about it now.

It’s rather obvious that the Chick-fil-A executives have learned a lesson from dealing with the Gay Liberation Army. The truth is never a suitable defense against lunacy. It is a lot easier to buy off this cunt than try and fight her. In another era, the smart fraction regularly had to deal with snaggle-toothed nitwits massing in town over demonic possession or the growing elf problem. The truth was never going to allay their fears so a a religious ritual was conducted and the smart fraction made the proper public acts of piety. That’s what Chick-fil-A is doing here. In this case the nitwits all have names like “Jeni” and “Hayley.” It is not an accident that most Vani’s followers are broads.

Agricultural science has made it possible for fewer and fewer people to feed more and more people at cheaper and cheaper prices. Antibiotics keep millions of Americans alive. Instead of getting wiped out by the flu ever decade, we get the runs for a few days or an excuse to stay home and make a long winter weekend. Forcing growers to stop using modern science in food production drives up costs and increases risks. Selling chicken treated with prayer versus chicken treated with antibiotics should be an easy choice.

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