The problem with this “Food Babe”, chemophobic approach is that everything is chemicals. Specifically this includes so-called “ chemophobia” – which is the fear of chemicals.
Neither of these factors have anything to do with actual food safety, but they make it easy to scare the non-expert. The Food Babe has essentially made a career out of provoking irrational fear of ingredients with unsavory sources and with scary-sounding, long chemical names. However, much of this information is coming from dubious sources – non-professional or academic sources that have not been peer reviewed in any meaningful way and may have ulterior agendas or ideological biases.įurther, it is not easy to understand any complex science, including chemistry and food science, which includes medical studies on ingredient safety. In other words – people are obtaining a great deal of information about food, food ingredients, and manufacturing processes, which is a good thing. If you’re going to inspect the process of making sausage, then you need to know something about sausage-making. I think ultimately this is a good thing – people are seeing how the sausage is made, which makes it more difficult to hide shady practices. This leads to a second reason for modern food fears – we are living in an age of increasing transparency, partly brought about by the dramatic increase in access to information on the internet. As the saying goes, you may not want to know how the sausage is made, as long as the end result is wholesome. Modern food technology can also involve many scary sounding substances and unusual processes.
Other people grow the food, transport it, process it, and perhaps even cook it. In our modern society this reflex can be tricky, because we do not always have control over the chain of events that leads to food on our plates. Humans have an inherent emotion of disgust, which is likely an adaptation to help avoid contaminated or spoiled food. It’s a survey of 1,008 mothers asking about foods they avoid and why.įood fears are a common topic on SBM, likely for several reasons. A new Cornell University study examines the origins of food fears, and possible remedies.
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