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sadoeconomist

Anonymous asked:

Is the backlash against cheap "artificial" food a spontaneous and decentralized phenomenon, or is it intentionally directed by the organic industry or other corporate interests that want to scare poor people into buying more expensive food?

sadoeconomist answered:

I think it’s mostly rooted in reasonable concerns about what’s actually being put in food, but a lot of it is also driven by woo-woo hippie bullshit, media hysteria, and people with legitimate eating disorders

I think the organic food industry mostly arose in response to consumer demand rather than the other way around, I could be wrong but I don’t think there’s anything particularly sinister in it, just ordinary food-related anxieties

mitigatedchaos

Yeah.

Also, it’s not a terrible heuristic.  A lot of the time, we keep having things that are “safe” end up having weird or dangerous side effects 20-40 years later.

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mitigatedchaos

The less smug you are, (and the less unethical you are), the less it stings when your most unethical behavior comes to light.

It’s good standard practice to avoid using “wit” (and snark) on people because they are low-status (”gross,” “smelly,” “ugly,” “fat harpy” and so on).  First of all, it’s just not a good mental hygiene habit.  Second of all, it cannot then come back to haunt you.

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ragemovement

When liberals Constantly use ‘45’, ‘head cheeto’, ‘drumpf’ etc to refer to trump….I’m just like “you know it isn’t like beetlejuice, right”

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it’s just the liberal obummer

rendakuenthusiast

It’s exactly as stupid as obummer was. Or for that matter however people made fun of Bush. Or for that matter writing “Micro$oft” with a dollar sign.

mitigatedchaos

It’s such a disgraceful way to refer to our first Meme-American President!

They need to have some cultural respect instead of just dismissing him over his unusually-saturated skin color!

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