All those nice birthday wishes here on the blog, bunches more on Facebook and in emails, plus a few more of those “your documentary changed my life” emails in the past couple of weeks … very nice.
But just so you don’t think it’s all kisses and hugs and holding hands and singing Kumbiya around here, I thought I’d share one of “those” emails. I received this one on my birthday:
You are an idiot! Please stop trying to “un-educate” people about food that is cancer causing, environment rapping and destroying, slave making, and propaganda filled. You are the problem with American Society, eating right from the evil corporate hands that feed you. Keep your undereducated, moronic opinions to your self and stop spending lies that could persuade people to continue hurting them selves and giving money to the very CEO’s providing the means of pain and suffering.
you disgust me,
Marja
Heh-heh-heh … can’t please everyone.
Now I’m off to set up the disc-golf course for my birthday shindig. I don’t plan on rapping the environment (or jazzing it or even rock ‘n’ rolling it) or enslaving anyone in the process, but the day is young.
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Oh my, where does one begin? I have so many questions.
How do you “un-educate” people?
What would you use to fill food with “propaganda”?
If I am a confirmed Fathead, must I eat out of evil corporate hands, or may I please use a plate?
What’s the exchange rate if I plan to spend lies?
Is the greengrocer’s apostrophe in “CEO’s” a hallmark of veganism?
More likely a hallmark of not mastering middle-school grammar.
It’s almost comical how desperately people will cling to an idea that they believe makes them morally superior. Even in the presence of undeniable proof, they just stand firm and start shouting more loudly and insanely.
Probably you are spreading heresy against his Holy Book, perhaps by Dr Campbell. Or perhaps he gets paid for that; he certainly writes like a hack.
“Environment rapping” – heh
I want to hear you beatbox in your next farm report now. XD
Rapping the environment? Trust me I don’t think rap would be good for the environment, maybe some smooth jazz, but never rap.
Oh my, where does one begin? I have so many questions.
How do you “un-educate” people?
What would you use to fill food with “propaganda”?
If I am a confirmed Fathead, must I eat out of evil corporate hands, or may I please use a plate?
What’s the exchange rate if I plan to spend lies?
Is the greengrocer’s apostrophe in “CEO’s” a hallmark of veganism?
More likely a hallmark of not mastering middle-school grammar.
You can’t please everyone, but you changed my life. Fat Head reached me just at exactly the right time for me. Thank you again. It was a team effort, to be sure, but your work catalysed it.
Should you find yourself coming to Summerside, PEI, Canada, for a nice summer vacation, please find me and tell me. You pay for nothing.
I appreciate that.
“Environment rapping” – heh
I want to hear you beatbox in your next farm report now. XD
Birthday greetings from the farm in Columbia. Hope it doesn’t rain too much on you, although we could use some water. Start “rapping” with enthusiasm but stop “spending lies” and enjoy your golf outing. The idea of “slaves” serving alcohol is great, I am sorry it hadn’t occurred to me before.
Tom – your brand of idiocy appeals to me!;)
Please continue your particularly illuminating idiocy and may others continue to benefit from this idiocy!
Spending lies? Since when did lies replace the American Dollar (or is that being redundant)?
Heh-heh … now that you mention it …
Sounds to me like a case of wheat brain if I ever saw one, that is, if there is a brain at all. I really enjoy your perspectives and the great information that you share. Hope your birthday was happy and wishing you many more.
You can’t please everyone, but you changed my life. Fat Head reached me just at exactly the right time for me. Thank you again. It was a team effort, to be sure, but your work catalysed it.
Should you find yourself coming to Summerside, PEI, Canada, for a nice summer vacation, please find me and tell me. You pay for nothing.
I appreciate that.
Take him up on that offer, Tom – PEI is beautiful in the summer, and the lobster and fish chowders are scrumptious!
Someday, perhaps.
Glad to be one of your slaves and eating your “corporate foods”.
It saved my life!
Happy Birthday!
High-animal-fat-and-protein-and-cholesterol food for thought to you. Allan Savory’s ‘TED’ talk is marvelous. A little OT, but reminded of Savory in Dave’s earlier comment.
Many birthday wishes and blessings and years of returns of the day rapping to you Tom!
Birthday greetings from the farm in Columbia. Hope it doesn’t rain too much on you, although we could use some water. Start “rapping” with enthusiasm but stop “spending lies” and enjoy your golf outing. The idea of “slaves” serving alcohol is great, I am sorry it hadn’t occurred to me before.
Tom – your brand of idiocy appeals to me!;)
Please continue your particularly illuminating idiocy and may others continue to benefit from this idiocy!
Spending lies? Since when did lies replace the American Dollar (or is that being redundant)?
Heh-heh … now that you mention it …
Sounds to me like a case of wheat brain if I ever saw one, that is, if there is a brain at all. I really enjoy your perspectives and the great information that you share. Hope your birthday was happy and wishing you many more.
All I can say is “other people’s children”.
Glad to be one of your slaves and eating your “corporate foods”.
It saved my life!
Happy Birthday!
She’s probably just bitter that Obamacare won’t cover her health issues (caused, of course, by her “heart healthy” vegan diet that lacks slavery, lies, and solid nutrition), and taking out her anger on you. I’d consider that a victory…but frustrating liberals with the truth is always a victory in my book.
Better to be a fat head than a grain brain.
Hey Tom,
firstly happy birthday!
Speaking of letters
TED Aligns with Monsanto, halting talks of GMO, food as medicine etc:
http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html
This is from a year ago so I don’t know how far it got but thought you’d be interested.
Yeah, I saw that. Ugh.
Sounds like “Grain Brain” to me. And, hey, stop ‘spending’ all those lies!
Tofurkey for all!
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/atlantic/talking-no-turkey-plant-based-diets-challenging-tradition/article_f7d6afaa-db91-54ee-bd10-9d27460e0f27.html
They look sickly.
They’re probably not eating free-range tofurkeys.
“””Her holiday dinner spread this year will likely include a Tofurky – which is a vegetarian substitute for turkey made with wheat protein and tofu…”””
Because wheat protein and tofu are about as close to nature as you can get… er, wait.
“””It’s been great,” Alisa said of being a vegan. “We have spread the word to many of our friends who have given up meat and dairy as well and they also say they feel like whole new people.”””
That’s because their bodies are devouring their own muscle mass, including their hearts. I feel sad for that couple’s children. The damage they are doing to them is horrible, and probably permanent. Adults can often compensate for deficiencies, but children can’t.
http://www.gnolls.org/1596/vegans-are-cannibals-the-truth-behind-the-new-vegan-high/
J. Stanton has ‘Vegans Are Cannibals: The Truth Behind The “New Vegan High”‘ at gnolls.org, with his usual scholarly and exhaustive approach.
Love it. Reminds me a bit of one of my first posts:
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2009/04/19/can-your-own-bologna-kill-you/
Better to be a fat head than a grain brain.
That email you got is just bizarre, in addition to being wrong. It is the lowfat low cholesterol diet, not LCHF, that leads people to eating processed “foods” made by the bigtime food companies. Those are the foods that didn’t exist 20 years ago and that come out of boxes and bags with lists of 30 ingredients. Eating LCHF you can eat things like meat, cheese, eggs, butter, cream, nuts, vegetables… not exactly frankenfoods, and not exactly the types of foods that get dreamt up in corporate meetings. Of all the criticisms to levy, that is just totally tone deaf.
By the way Tom, did you ever write a follow-up to the post from a couple months ago when your fasting blood sugar had gone up and you were thinking it was due to going off the diet for a few days? I’d be curious to know if your numbers have gone back to where they were.
Thanks as always for the insight!
Fasting blood sugar and triglycerides were back to normal (95 glucose, 70 trigs) on my follow-up lab test, so yes, it was the wedding-weekend indulgence. My cholesterol dropped from 245 to 230, which I know the doctor will say is still too high, but of course I disagree on that one.
Hey Tom,
firstly happy birthday!
Speaking of letters
TED Aligns with Monsanto, halting talks of GMO, food as medicine etc:
http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html
This is from a year ago so I don’t know how far it got but thought you’d be interested.
Yeah, I saw that. Ugh.
How can you un-educate the un-educated?
You put them on double-secret uneducation.
This reply double rot-13 encoded.
Sounds like “Grain Brain” to me. And, hey, stop ‘spending’ all those lies!
This is the critique that eternally annoys me of your documentary. For some reason saying that its not McDonald’s fault your unhealthy, but rather you choosing to eat unhealthily at McDonalds that makes you unwell translates to people as saying “MCDONALDS IS HEALTHY, FILL YOUR GULLET WITH EVERYTHING ON THEIR MENU!!!!!!!!” If I’m honest the first time I watched Fat Head I was purposefully watching it to be highly skeptical/negative and I didn’t even draw that conclusion (in my defense Netflix’s description of your documentary wasn’t entirely accurate). Definitely glad I took a second round through to appreciate all the info you gathered.
Thank you so much for all you’ve done and keep doing what you’re doing, you’ve really improved mine and my family’s lives! 🙂
I guess people miss that part where I say specifically “A fast food diet is not a good diet.”
Sadly, some people just can’t see beyond the idea that you’re “defending” McDonalds, and they fly off the handle before really hearing you out.
Well, it’s like this: They think people are stupid and McDonald’s is taking advantage of them, therefore the government needs to step in and protect the stupid people by restricting their freedom to make their own choices, or McDonald’s freedom to sell its products, or both. So if someone like me says people aren’t stupid and we have no business taking away anyone’s economic freedom “for their own good,” they don’t see it as defending freedom and personal responsibility. They see it as defending McDonald’s.
Tofurkey for all!
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/atlantic/talking-no-turkey-plant-based-diets-challenging-tradition/article_f7d6afaa-db91-54ee-bd10-9d27460e0f27.html
They look sickly.
They’re probably not eating free-range tofurkeys.
“””Her holiday dinner spread this year will likely include a Tofurky – which is a vegetarian substitute for turkey made with wheat protein and tofu…”””
Because wheat protein and tofu are about as close to nature as you can get… er, wait.
“””It’s been great,” Alisa said of being a vegan. “We have spread the word to many of our friends who have given up meat and dairy as well and they also say they feel like whole new people.”””
That’s because their bodies are devouring their own muscle mass, including their hearts. I feel sad for that couple’s children. The damage they are doing to them is horrible, and probably permanent. Adults can often compensate for deficiencies, but children can’t.
http://www.gnolls.org/1596/vegans-are-cannibals-the-truth-behind-the-new-vegan-high/
J. Stanton has ‘Vegans Are Cannibals: The Truth Behind The “New Vegan High”’ at gnolls.org, with his usual scholarly and exhaustive approach.
Love it. Reminds me a bit of one of my first posts:
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2009/04/19/can-your-own-bologna-kill-you/
That email you got is just bizarre, in addition to being wrong. It is the lowfat low cholesterol diet, not LCHF, that leads people to eating processed “foods” made by the bigtime food companies. Those are the foods that didn’t exist 20 years ago and that come out of boxes and bags with lists of 30 ingredients. Eating LCHF you can eat things like meat, cheese, eggs, butter, cream, nuts, vegetables… not exactly frankenfoods, and not exactly the types of foods that get dreamt up in corporate meetings. Of all the criticisms to levy, that is just totally tone deaf.
By the way Tom, did you ever write a follow-up to the post from a couple months ago when your fasting blood sugar had gone up and you were thinking it was due to going off the diet for a few days? I’d be curious to know if your numbers have gone back to where they were.
Thanks as always for the insight!
Fasting blood sugar and triglycerides were back to normal (95 glucose, 70 trigs) on my follow-up lab test, so yes, it was the wedding-weekend indulgence. My cholesterol dropped from 245 to 230, which I know the doctor will say is still too high, but of course I disagree on that one.
This is the critique that eternally annoys me of your documentary. For some reason saying that its not McDonald’s fault your unhealthy, but rather you choosing to eat unhealthily at McDonalds that makes you unwell translates to people as saying “MCDONALDS IS HEALTHY, FILL YOUR GULLET WITH EVERYTHING ON THEIR MENU!!!!!!!!” If I’m honest the first time I watched Fat Head I was purposefully watching it to be highly skeptical/negative and I didn’t even draw that conclusion (in my defense Netflix’s description of your documentary wasn’t entirely accurate). Definitely glad I took a second round through to appreciate all the info you gathered.
Thank you so much for all you’ve done and keep doing what you’re doing, you’ve really improved mine and my family’s lives! 🙂
I guess people miss that part where I say specifically “A fast food diet is not a good diet.”
Sadly, some people just can’t see beyond the idea that you’re “defending” McDonalds, and they fly off the handle before really hearing you out.
Well, it’s like this: They think people are stupid and McDonald’s is taking advantage of them, therefore the government needs to step in and protect the stupid people by restricting their freedom to make their own choices, or McDonald’s freedom to sell its products, or both. So if someone like me says people aren’t stupid and we have no business taking away anyone’s economic freedom “for their own good,” they don’t see it as defending freedom and personal responsibility. They see it as defending McDonald’s.
Bill Maher opined that one of the reasons that the Romney team lost the last election was that they were living “In the Bubble”. The vegan bubble is even more profound and insular. The bubble is buttressed by an interlocking web of beliefs that we all know well.
Animal food causes, heart disease, cancer and anything else bad. Man has evolved as an herbivore. Plant eating will save the environment, on an on. Basically the vegan lifestyle is nutritionally, morally, ecologically superior to an lifestyle that includes animal foods, i.e. the rest of humanity. In the bubble they bounce these myths back and forth between each other until they reach a laser like intensity. Inside the bubble these ideas are reasonable. When a vegan sticks their head outside the bubble and starts babbling, they merely sound insane. To them animal foods are fundamentally evil, to the rest of the world if they are lucky enough to get them, they are merely lunch. There is no room for dissent in the vegan bubble. Inconvenient questions and observations (no reproducing part of humanity naturally eats or ever ate this way) are ignored. Real threats to the bubble are attacked, verbally and often physically. Many of the ideas you present in Fathead are real threats to the vegan bubble for they show the pillars supporting the vegan bubble for what they really are, myths. “It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Its no wonder that they start squawking and bouncing around like Donald Duck on acid. Clearly you are a shill for the “Meat and Dairy Lobby”. If you really want to see what it is like when a vampire is suddenly confronted with a crucifix, just mention these three words to a vegan…Weston A. Price. BTW Happy BDay Many more
Donald Duck on acid … LOL.
Ironic analogy. I believe Maher is a vegetarian.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by W. A. Price was a real eye opener for me even after I had read Taubes’ GCBC.
Bill Maher opined that one of the reasons that the Romney team lost the last election was that they were living “In the Bubble”. The vegan bubble is even more profound and insular. The bubble is buttressed by an interlocking web of beliefs that we all know well.
Animal food causes, heart disease, cancer and anything else bad. Man has evolved as an herbivore. Plant eating will save the environment, on an on. Basically the vegan lifestyle is nutritionally, morally, ecologically superior to an lifestyle that includes animal foods, i.e. the rest of humanity. In the bubble they bounce these myths back and forth between each other until they reach a laser like intensity. Inside the bubble these ideas are reasonable. When a vegan sticks their head outside the bubble and starts babbling, they merely sound insane. To them animal foods are fundamentally evil, to the rest of the world if they are lucky enough to get them, they are merely lunch. There is no room for dissent in the vegan bubble. Inconvenient questions and observations (no reproducing part of humanity naturally eats or ever ate this way) are ignored. Real threats to the bubble are attacked, verbally and often physically. Many of the ideas you present in Fathead are real threats to the vegan bubble for they show the pillars supporting the vegan bubble for what they really are, myths. “It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Its no wonder that they start squawking and bouncing around like Donald Duck on acid. Clearly you are a shill for the “Meat and Dairy Lobby”. If you really want to see what it is like when a vampire is suddenly confronted with a crucifix, just mention these three words to a vegan…Weston A. Price. BTW Happy BDay Many more
Donald Duck on acid … LOL.
Ironic analogy. I believe Maher is a vegetarian.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by W. A. Price was a real eye opener for me even after I had read Taubes’ GCBC.
thought i’d share this, get that padded desk ready
http://tinyurl.com/nzcmkpc
Yup, because giving a kid some Ritz crackers will keep him healthy.
They say ignorance is bliss, but she didn’t seem very happy…..
They say ignorance is bliss, but she didn’t seem very happy…..
“Evil corporate hand that feeds you”?
Huh?
I’d be curious to see a picture of what’s in your fridge and pantry right now.
I’d bet money that there’s not a whole lot of corporate anything in there, unless you’ve given up that fresh, whole food thing and forgotten to inform us.
Maybe you should get a few ADM soy products so you can avoid those “evil corporate hands”, too?
Well, I’m pretty sure the ketchup and mustard have corporate logos on the bottles, but other than condiments, the fridge contains single-ingredient whole foods.
“Evil corporate hand that feeds you”?
Huh?
I’d be curious to see a picture of what’s in your fridge and pantry right now.
I’d bet money that there’s not a whole lot of corporate anything in there, unless you’ve given up that fresh, whole food thing and forgotten to inform us.
Maybe you should get a few ADM soy products so you can avoid those “evil corporate hands”, too?
Well, I’m pretty sure the ketchup and mustard have corporate logos on the bottles, but other than condiments, the fridge contains single-ingredient whole foods.
Rapping the environment? Trust me I don’t think rap would be good for the environment, maybe some smooth jazz, but never rap.
High-animal-fat-and-protein-and-cholesterol food for thought to you. Allan Savory’s ‘TED’ talk is marvelous. A little OT, but reminded of Savory in Dave’s earlier comment.
Many birthday wishes and blessings and years of returns of the day rapping to you Tom!