@humptydumpty said in A cosmetic question:
@jdaviescoates Why would it be a joke?
Because, whilst he's done some nice things in the past, and is right to be concerned about and criticise Ultra Processed Foods, he routinely spouts complete and utter provably false dangerous bullshit (e.g. about vaccines and COVID and so much else).
And even on the processed foods stuff e.g. "He later clarified that he does not want to take away access to processed food for Americans: "If you like a McDonald's cheeseburger or a Diet Coke - which my boss loves - you should be able to get them," he said"
Like pretty much all politicians everywhere (very much including Democrats in the US and Labour in the UK too, btw) I don't believe for a second he'll take any actions against the owners of capital who (especially in the US, but here in the UK too) have basically purchased them. And it's those owners who benefit from selling us nutritionally empty ultra processed crap.
Michael Pollan's 7 word food manifesto is still pretty spot-on IMHO:
Eat food*.
Not too much.
Mostly plants.
*by which he means actual food, not UPF (nice summary here)
But on the topic of UPF I can highly recommend these great talks by Chris Van Tulleken (author of Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?) :
And these which are for children and so really accessible (those in the UK can watch them over on iPlayer) :
@BrutalBirdie said in A cosmetic question:
Please lets not swing from a beard beauty topic into a political one
Sorry, it had to be said
@humptydumpty I relaly hope RFK does do something positive about UPF because it's even worse there in the US than here in the UK. If he actually does I've give you $10 to buy that book (but you can also find it on Z Library, etc too ). But even if he does I'll still think he's mostly a dangerous nonsense spouting numpty