05-08-2015, 04:41 AM
I am all for eating better and consuming less processed foods but some of the claims the health blogger and the methods she uses sounds questionable to me.
Claims of "Food Babe" including the alarming notion of beaver urine is in food. Read the article to see how she makes her conclusions.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and..._your.html
Hari tirelessly reminds her blog readers that the next time they take licks of vanilla ice cream or spoonfuls of strawberry oatmeal, “there’s a chance you’ll be swirling secretions from a beaver’s anal glands around in your mouth.” It surely drives traffic: Tell me you wouldn’t click on a link to “Do You Eat Beaver Butt?” She is referring to castoreum, which is indeed extracted from a pair of sacs found on the rear end of a beaver, though not from the anal glands. Castoreum has been used in unguents and medicines for more than 2,000 years, but the Food Babe was appalled to discover the Food and Drug Administration considers castoreum to be not gross but GRAS—“generally recognized as safe” for both food and pharmaceutical uses.
The use of scare tactics says a lot to me when you think about the near impossibility of collecting enough beaver urine to add to foods. How would they hire people for this task?
Now Hiring: Beaver Urine Collector, enjoy the great outdoors, long hikes, hands-on intimate connections with nature. Includes health, dental, 401k. Call 555-555-5555.
The language is quite frank in this Gawker article where "Food Babe" is called out by "Science Babe".
http://tinyurl.com/oksly88
Claims of "Food Babe" including the alarming notion of beaver urine is in food. Read the article to see how she makes her conclusions.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and..._your.html
Hari tirelessly reminds her blog readers that the next time they take licks of vanilla ice cream or spoonfuls of strawberry oatmeal, “there’s a chance you’ll be swirling secretions from a beaver’s anal glands around in your mouth.” It surely drives traffic: Tell me you wouldn’t click on a link to “Do You Eat Beaver Butt?” She is referring to castoreum, which is indeed extracted from a pair of sacs found on the rear end of a beaver, though not from the anal glands. Castoreum has been used in unguents and medicines for more than 2,000 years, but the Food Babe was appalled to discover the Food and Drug Administration considers castoreum to be not gross but GRAS—“generally recognized as safe” for both food and pharmaceutical uses.
The use of scare tactics says a lot to me when you think about the near impossibility of collecting enough beaver urine to add to foods. How would they hire people for this task?
Now Hiring: Beaver Urine Collector, enjoy the great outdoors, long hikes, hands-on intimate connections with nature. Includes health, dental, 401k. Call 555-555-5555.
The language is quite frank in this Gawker article where "Food Babe" is called out by "Science Babe".
http://tinyurl.com/oksly88
