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8/5/2014 11:08:15 PM

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"So, this is what happened. Campbell's gave some Food Babe wannabe the answer to the question what is in your V8 juice via twitter, maybe somewhere else. That answer, was a general answer FOR ALL PRODUCTS, not specific ones. Meaning, "natural flavors" at Campbell's means this... It did not mean it contains ALL of them for every product. They are keeping their recipes proprietary, as is their right. Then, PayMe Babe, went and wrote a post that said V8 contains dead animal parts. When she was corrected, she stayed silent. Well, today, she posts this. I'm not saying Campbell's isn't at least partially responsible for this mix up, they are. But these silly people running on about Campbell's social media reps not knowing what is in their proprietary recipes for every product in the company is ridiculous. They don't have that information and no company is ever gonna give their social media reps that information. That is why they have a general response. Having said that, Campbell's really needs to get it together or these uninformed nuts are gonna cause big problems for them. Edit: At worst, all Campbell's said was they don't have any vegan products."

http://foodbabe.com/2014/08/07/update-does-campbells-soup-not-know-whats-in-its-own-products/

8/7/2014 1:36:53 PM

This bitch is *still* running around screaming Campbell's doesn't know what ingredients are in its soups.

They know, and she knows that they know. They just aren't telling her ass.

With every post she's just trying to mobilize her "army" of idiots into forcing Campbells to disclose their ingredients so she can put another notch in her keyboard increase her speaking fees and whatever other revenue streams she has.

Disgusting.

8/18/2014 5:18:58 PM

Yeah, I don't know what's worse...this dumb bitch or the dumbass mommybloggers who fuel her.

8/18/2014 8:19:52 PM

The mommybloggers. They make her shit possible.

That and flipping out about breastfeeding their crotchfruit.

8/18/2014 8:29:42 PM

and flipping out about fucking everything.

there is a significant portion of the female population that goes clinically fucking insane once bred and exposed to the internet.

8/18/2014 10:24:34 PM

If she considers natural flavoring to contain "dead animal parts," then everything else she consumes contains dead animal parts, because shit helped grow the organic vegetables that she eats. Natural flavoring is highly refined molecular compounds, which are obviously going to be a proprietary secret to any company. She probably thinks it's broth or something. She's as bad as the anti-vaxxers.

[Edited on August 19, 2014 at 12:13 AM. Reason : feck]

8/19/2014 12:13:05 AM

I only want to eat organic food fertilized by Food Babe™'s own brand of fertilizer from this point forward

8/19/2014 12:15:06 AM

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"The mommybloggers. They make her shit possible."

Naw I put more blame on her. She's the one spreading false and inflammatory information causing all these idiots to "mobilize." Without the FoodBabe leading the charge, most of these people would be content playing Candy Crush and sharing stories about GMOs on Facebook.

8/19/2014 9:53:13 AM

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"Yes, no one should have to eat your stinking Mac & Cheese - KRAFT! Love this woman. P.S. No one is saying anyone should starve. This is about providing access to nutritious and healthy foods for all. It's more about human rights. It's unethical to feed these toxins to anyone in my opinion"

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/local-food-bank-says-no-to-kraft-dinner-and-hot-dogs-in-favor-of-good-nutritious-food-1.1966884#ixzz3AseCRlgr

8/21/2014 12:17:25 PM

Stupid, stupid cunts.

8/21/2014 12:27:32 PM

Eugh. Just don't drink their fucking drinks if you are so worried about it.

http://foodbabe.com/2014/08/25/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte/

8/25/2014 8:03:24 PM

Ugh, I never drink Starbucks but now I'm gonna have to get a gross pumpkin spice latte out of principle.

8/25/2014 8:47:36 PM

^^ Eugh. Obviously, she doesn't. But, how can people be worried about it without knowing the ingredients? I am glad she is getting purveyors of junk food to disclose the ingredients that go into making their junk.


^ Drink up!

8/26/2014 12:27:28 AM

I want to give the Food Babe™ some salami


ya know what I mean

8/26/2014 1:28:36 AM

Ugh, I sent a buddy of mine that link (from the last page) about the beer backlash against Food Babe. And this is the reply I got:

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"I think Vani Hari doesn't care that things like fish swim bladders being used in beer-making, but rather that the companies hide all of the ingredients. HFCS cooks off mostly according to this article, but who cares? If it was added, people should know. Our government is stupid enough when it comes to food, but at least the FDA controls the labeling and tells us what's in it. For beer, it's up to the Treasury department, and they don't have the same rules which is ridiculous. It's now up to the Treasury to decide what I put in my body is safe, not me. Vani fights for transparency, and in doing so, points out things that would shock the drinkers. She put out an article yesterday slamming Starbucks for not using any part of a pumpkin in their seasonal drink, and they also use a carcinogenic caramel coloring. Although some people don't care, her point in the article was that it was nearly impossible for the average person to get the proper ingredients of the drink if they desired to find out. I know some of her stuff sounds extreme to people, but I'd trust her over any corporation!"

8/26/2014 9:15:36 AM

I thought when things were "pumpkin spice" it meant that they used "pumpkin spices", the spices that are used to season pumpkin pie and other dishes and not any actual pumpkin.

Instead of buying all the spices individually for those dishes you can buy "pumpkin spice" in the spice section, which is those things already combined. Do people expect that to contain pumpkin?

8/26/2014 9:42:40 AM

Pretty sure my buddy is brainwashed by his wife. He didn't give a shit about what he ate (within reason) before getting hitched.

8/26/2014 10:12:10 AM

^^That's the way I always understood it. Pumpkin itself tastes bland, like any other squash. If something is "pumpkin spice" its made using a spice mix that gives things like pumpkin pie its flavor.

Using real pumpkin in things like coffee and beer isn't something consumers should expect. If it is used all it adds is sugar and probably isn't any different that the evil high fructose corn syrup it would replace.

8/26/2014 3:19:57 PM

Am I the only one that just gets coffee from starbucks?

8/26/2014 5:25:36 PM

am i the only one that's only been inside starbucks one time, even though i like coffee, and that was once was only because i was running late to a function where i was supposed to bring the coffee and it was the only place on the way?

8/26/2014 5:28:20 PM

Pretty sure the reason she's as big as she is has to do with the reactions in this thread. If you're angry you're the intended audience.

This is just a convenient way to politicize the divide between upper middle class and lower.

Upper Middle Class: I'M NOT REALLY POOR, I GET MY ORGANIC PUMPKIN LATTE FROM WHOLE FOODS!
Middle Class: BUT I AINT GUN PAY NO $5 FOR NO FAIR TRADE BLACK KAWFEE, JUST GON GO TO STARBUCKS TO PISS HER OFF!

Ok, the system won. In both cases you bought an overpriced coffee drink. Speaking of I could use a $6 Kyoto Coffee about now...

8/26/2014 7:36:50 PM

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"Pretty sure the reason she's as big as she is has to do with the reactions in this thread."

Pretty sure you're wrong.

8/26/2014 7:40:01 PM

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"am i the only one that's only been inside starbucks one time, even though i like coffee, and that was once was only because i was running late to a function where i was supposed to bring the coffee and it was the only place on the way?"

They have consistently decent reasonably priced coffee. Coffee, not a latte or cappuccino. I think a cup of coffee is still $1.75 (for technically a cup and a half ~ 12oz). That's not bad.

Traveling I know I can always get a decent cup of coffee for cheap. Especially at airports. Sure I'll get local coffee if I know where to go but starbucks coffee is good.

8/26/2014 7:47:17 PM

The reason she's as popular as she is because critical thinking and skepticism are too much work for nearly everyone. Humans generally believe what gives them good feels rather than what is accurate. Anything to stay in a group or confirm their biases.

I very much blame her and her followers equally, along with everyone else who supports believing claims without evidence. Credulity is the dog, superstition the fleas.

8/26/2014 7:48:18 PM

^ You're only explaining half.

It's just as much for the haters as the loyal NPR & Whole Foods shopper.

8/26/2014 7:52:46 PM

NPR is the only thing anyone should listen to on the radio. I mean car talk? Come on.

8/26/2014 8:14:11 PM

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7226135

She's referring to a hamster study back in 1980 showed that if you force feed lab animals a steady diet of 5% carrageenan throughout their lifetimes, there's a slight chance that they'll get GI infections or benign tumors, although the study showed no evidence of carcinogenic effects. Needless to say, a pumpkin latte does not contain 5% equivalent volume of carrageenan. I'd be willing to bet it doesn't even contain one part per billion

8/26/2014 8:41:07 PM

^^^^

I am getting so fucking tired of seeing chicks on FB repost this dumb shit. Goddamn, I think I'd rather be subjected to simple nonstop babbling about how much they like the Pumpkin Spice Latte; at least that is accurate.

8/27/2014 12:19:26 AM

8/28/2014 11:40:13 AM

I have enjoyed seeing begonias battle the Food Babe Army sheeple on Facebook.

8/28/2014 11:46:28 AM

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"Foodbaby, you're a fraud make a big noise Playin' scientist Gonna be a he-ro some day You make ridiculous claims For some big fame Takin' your selfies all over the place Singing We will We will Mock you Uh-huh We will We will Mock you Everybody We will We will Mock you - Chow Babe"

8/29/2014 2:07:20 PM

well fucking begonias got her 60 cents from Starbucks.

where's my shill money goddammit?

8/29/2014 11:06:15 PM

this is why big agro needs to be more or less annihilated

http://mic.com/articles/97664/one-of-the-planet-s-most-important-species-is-about-to-disappear-for-good

8/30/2014 2:38:05 AM

That's not really Food Babe related...

[Edited on August 30, 2014 at 8:19 AM. Reason : at all]

8/30/2014 8:18:39 AM

...nor is it even correct

If neonics/GMOs were to blame, why is the same thing occurring in parts of the world where they're not used (or not occurring in places like Australia, which uses more neonics)? But if you actually want to discuss this topic, I suggest you start another thread.

And Food Babe is still a narcissistic cunt who has no idea what she's talking about.

[Edited on August 30, 2014 at 9:04 AM. Reason : s all around]

8/30/2014 8:58:25 AM

So she apparently made Gatorade less healthy. Or so I hear.

9/4/2014 12:06:18 PM

How so?

9/4/2014 12:06:46 PM

Oh, here it is: http://visiblefriends.net/getreal/2014/06/the-food-babe-actually-made-orange-gatorade-less-healthy-heres-how/

So the argument is Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO) is actually healthy, and having it removed from Gatorade made it less healthy? Not sure I buy that...

[Edited on September 4, 2014 at 1:04 PM. Reason : V lettuce try and ignore OEP ITT...best course of action]

9/4/2014 12:58:27 PM

nearly everything you eat has been genetically modified in some fashion.

time to give it up.

9/4/2014 12:58:33 PM

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"Quackmail: Why You Shouldn't Fall For The Internet's Newest Fool, The Food Babe. She made the front page of the Financial Times as the blogger who humbled Big Food and whose latest campaign for transparency in beer ingredients left “The King of Beers,” Anheuser Busch InBev, and close running rival SabMiller clamoring like Neville Chamberlain to appease a bully. “The rapid response by AB InBev and SABMiller—which capitulated to Ms Hari’s demands within 36 hours—underscores the growing power of social media over corporate policy,” wrote the FT’s Consumer Industries Editor, Scheherazade Daneshkhu. Ironically, one of the key factoids in blogger Vani Hari—aka, “The Food Babe’s”—attack on Big Beer was that they “even use fish swim bladders” to make their product without putting this self-evidently dodgy fact on the label; the implication is that beer should not from fish bladder be made. Yet, isinglass—as dried fish bladder is Tolkienesquely called—has been used to clarify beer, wine and liquor since the early 18th century, and its manufacture was widespread in Colonial America (a versatile compound, it was also mixed with gin and used as a glue to repair broken china). While this may cause vegans to pause before a draught, isinglass has been used and consumed without incident for centuries. Unfortunately, this kind of clarification, where a blogger takes something commonplace and gives it a nefarious social media friendly twist to advance an agenda, did not make the Financial Times, Business Insider, USA Today, NBC News, and undoubtedly many more news stories that uncritically reported the Food Babe’s victory. Fortunately, there are real experts on the Internet, and they are not pulling any punches. The Food Babe “is the Jenny McCarthy of the food industry,” writes “beer snob” and cancer surgeon David Gorski on Science-Based Medicine. “Of course,” he adds, “I don’t mean that as a compliment.” As Gorski notes, Hari’s strategy is to “name a bunch of chemicals and count on the chemical illiteracy of your audience to result in fear at hearing their very names.” Anti-freeze in beer? Propylene glycol has many uses, but the reason it’s used in de-icing solutions is that it lowers the freezing temperature of water. That’s it. There are no concerns about toxicity because you’d have to consume huge quantities of it very quickly to have any effect. More to the point writes Gorski, it’s not, as Derek Zoolander might think, in the beer, it’s in the cooling system for the beer; it just appears that propylene glycol is an ingredient because the law requires listing every production process. That the media should give The Food Babe a free pass as an expert or as a credible consumer watchdog is especially troubling when you look at some of her other claims, as recorded by the doctors at Science-Based Medicine. As infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip MD noted, Hari out goops Gwyneth Paltrow on the feelings of water by claiming that if you expose water to the words “Hitler” and “Satan” it will change its physical structure in exactly the same way as if you microwaved it. She believes getting the flu shot will give you cancer from all the “chemicals.” She is, naturally, against GMOs. As Gorski notes, “companies live and die by public perception. It’s far easier to give a blackmailer like Hari what she wants than to try to resist or to counter her propaganda by educating the public. And, make no mistake, blackmail is exactly what Vani Hari is about.” Actually, a better word would be “quackmail.” So when are journalists going to hold truth up to this new self-promoting social media juggernaut? Why have so many news stories avoided questioning her claims as they would question her targets in the food industry? Surely, someone who believes that saying “Satan,” repeatedly, to a glass of water will alter the water’s physical properties needs to be treated with a dash of skepticism—no?"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2014/06/16/quackmail-why-you-shouldnt-fall-for-the-internets-newest-fool-the-food-babe/

9/4/2014 1:16:55 PM

lol sure BVO is healthy

drink a liter

9/4/2014 1:17:30 PM

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"So the argument is Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO) is actually healthy, and having it removed from Gatorade made it less healthy? Not sure I buy that..."

The argument is that bromine is necessary for tissue development. If you remove it from a product, you would need to replace it with something that did the same job (in this case, keeping the citrus flavoring from coalescing). Hydrocolloids do a similar job, but don't contain bromine, so you're not getting that nutrient.

I don't 100% agree with that reasoning, mostly because I'm unsure about the bioavailability of bromine from BVO, but that doesn't mean Food Boob is any less of an idiot for her constant unscientific fear-promoting ramblings about food ingredients.

[Edited on September 4, 2014 at 11:29 PM. Reason : foods themselves are not inherently good or bad, it's the choices you make]

9/4/2014 11:23:51 PM

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"but that doesn't mean Food Boob is any less of an idiot for her constant unscientific fear-promoting ramblings about food ingredients."

I'm with you there...I can't stand the bitch and couldn't have any less respect for her "army" of simple minded idiots, but I think this particular point of removing BVOs from Gatorade making it "less healthy" is fucking stupid...like something on the Food Babe level of dishonesty. The shit is sugar water anyway. Unless you're a pretty serious athlete I don't think your body has much use for it, and for the majority of people it's bad in general. I gotta give it up though...that shit tastes good. As far as bromines go, I can't imagine Gatorade should be considered as a primary source for any nutrient...and I'm using the word nutrient loosely here.

9/4/2014 11:36:04 PM

^

[Edited on September 4, 2014 at 11:57 PM. Reason : Gatorade is good if you're really killin' it physically in hot conditions. otherwise drink water]

9/4/2014 11:56:27 PM

^totally agree.

^^bromine may be making its way to being classified as an essential nutrient: http://www.dcnutrition.com/minerals/detail.cfm?RecordNumber=62

[Edited on September 5, 2014 at 12:17 AM. Reason : water is sufficient for regular physical activity]

9/5/2014 12:16:16 AM

I'm just saying tho, if Gatorade is being considered as the the primary delivery mechanism for any "nutrient" something is all fucked up.

9/5/2014 12:18:03 AM

BUT ITS GOT ELECTROLYTES

9/5/2014 12:18:41 AM

so to support your viewpoint, you are posting a link to a page that you would otherwise condemn for being pseudo-scientific? look at what the chiropractor is selling:

https://www.dcnutrition.com/products/index.cfm (detoxes!)

and that's without even saying anything about the quack nature of the chiropractic field to begin with!

[Edited on September 5, 2014 at 12:23 AM. Reason : ]

9/5/2014 12:23:05 AM

Interestingly, Crossfit and it's strongest warriors are going after Gatorade right now for KILLING athletes

9/5/2014 12:23:35 AM