The food supply in the West is surprisingly safe, given the deregulated and decentralized nature of the system of producing food and getting it to your table. This reality, however, comes with frequent food scares. These cares are usually based in superstitious nonsense. Every day we see stories about how some staple of our diet is dangerous or a story debunking the previous scary story. Then there are the new snake oil salesman, pitching the latest food fads and miracle diets.
This story about Subway is a good example. The chemical in this case is Azodicarbonamide, a food stabilizer. There’s no science linking it to any negative health issues. We know this because it is in all of the food in North America and people are not falling over dead from it. Granted, there has not been a longitudinal study on the widespread use of it, but the lack of people dying from it is called a clue. That does not stop grifters from claiming otherwise. In this case, it is someone named Vani Hari.
Vani started FoodBabe.com in April 2011 to spread information about what is really in the American food supply. She teaches people how to make the right purchasing decisions at the grocery store, how to live an organic lifestyle, and how to travel healthfully around the world. The success in her writing and investigative work can be seen in the way food companies react to her uncanny ability to find and expose the truth.
Where she got the knowledge she spreads is a mystery. A search for a more detailed biography comes up empty. It appears she was a marketing or sales person out of college and then got into the fake nutrition rackets. That’s not surprising. People in sales are good at finding the pressure points of people and exploiting them. So are con-artists, which is the entire population of the health food racket. Everyone wants to be healthy and will set aside rationality in the quest for good health. It is a very old story.
A feature of the female grifter these days is the weird aspirational way they describe themselves. Maybe is the way women have always talked, but men never had a reason to notice it. In this highly feminized culture, women are turning up everywhere in female lead roles, which are exaggerated versions of women. That means they talk about themselves in weird ways and seem to care about everything a bit too much.
My name Vani, means Voice in my native language, and I have always had things to “Voice” throughout my life whether it be about politics, the environment or whatever is making headlines. After suffering some serious health issues, I became incredibly passionate about understanding what is in food – how it is grown, what chemicals are used in its production, and what eating food does or doesn’t do for the body.
Hitler became passionate about killing Jews and Slavs. Mao, after coming to power, became passionate about killing off millions of his people. Pol Pot was very passionate about his work. Serial killers are passionate about their work. When the West was run by sensible men, taming one’s passions was a virtue. Now that it is run by women, the more passion the better, even if the person is a raving lunatic and con artist. Perhaps that’s the other feature of girl power. Everyone becomes a con artist.
