Food Is For White Liberals What Sex Is For The Religious Right
Sorry, but I couldn't resist. This piece is on the money, and it combines many DU issues of recent origin.
Anyway, I am mostly unavailable for the coming days, and completely unavailable, very soon, for several weeks. Still...
http://skepchick.org/2014/07/food-is-for-white-liberals-what-sex-is-for-the-religious-right/
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Bring up reproductive rights and liberals shake their heads and remark on the incredible cognitive dissonance of the Religious Right. Sure, the Right is “small government” in theory, but it’s about sex, liberals shrug. It’s about policing women’s bodies and an obsessive desire to control what happens in people’s bedrooms. It’s a complete fear and denial of scientific data in favor of emotionally overblown gut reaction.
Then you bring up GMOs. Or locally sourced meat. Or whatever diet is trendy that week.
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When asking the server how the animal being served was prepared, no one seems to wonder whether that server has basic health insurance or whether that server is affected by the fact that the restaurant industry has one of the highest rates of sexual harassment and lowest rates of pay. When waxing poetic about the “salt of the Earth” farmers from which they buy their unpasteurized milk, no one seems to worry that an estimated 10 percent of American farm workers are children. When pearl-clutching over the things we “don’t know” about GMOs, as Kavin pointed out, no one seems to be concerned about their presence in groceries found at Price Rite––only products sold at Whole Foods.
If you are not as concerned about the people handing you your food in the restaurant as you are about the pigs on the farm where it was grown, your approach is classist. If you are more concerned about the availability of food trucks in the neighboring town than whether its residents actually want them (thanks to my dear friend Tina for setting me straight on this one), or if you buy things like this (thanks to Heina for that find), your approach is imperialist. If you start telling someone all about your new trendy diet or asking them about theirs without knowing if they have an eating disorder that may be triggered by your prattle, your approach is ableist. If you tsk-tsk at people who are overweight for what they are eating and claim you’re concerned about their health, yet you’re not actively campaigning to make healthy food more accessible and affordable, your approach is sickening and I don’t want you in my activism.
I want the Religious Right out of my bedroom and the White Liberal Food Police out of my kitchen. Is that so much to ask?"
I remain proudly liberal and progressive, and I remain focused on science as the best method to inform that liberalism.
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As a guide on how NOT to act.
Thanks for the predictable, pointless response.
Do I need to write your posts for you? 
PS: http://fafdl.org/blog/2014/08/14/what-the-haters-got-wrong-about-neil-degrasse-tysons-comments-on-gmos/
I would have expected someone like you to have opened this topic up - for the, what, 15th or 20th time...?
As you know full well. 
Wasting it on an internet discussion forum, haha. I think DU - and the world - wins here.
I've got people yelling at me in both ears already. Don't go there!
non-organic whipped cream?
I mean, seriously. Who wants to constantly be washing lemon meringue out of their sheets? Not me!
Perhaps I'm just too practical, but my opinion is, Have the sex, then eat the food. Or eat the food, then have the sex.
Needless to say, I thought 9½ Weeks was a dumb movie, too. 
Or is this another of your physic race readings?
Like the time you assumed a shooting was gang related only because the shooter was black...
My brother eats no carbs, not even fruit and limited non-starchy veggies. I do and enjoy my carbs guilt-free. Needless to say it's not fun trying to find a restaurant that will suit his needs, or to entertain him at home. The lectures are worse than the actual food accommodations. 
This is one unadulterated load of regurgitated same-old same-old preconceived notions that if you care about animals somehow there isn't room in your consciousness to also care about humans. It isn't one or the other. I care about both. I have a well developed social conscience and I don't eat animals. I don't wear animals. I've also attended demos against (partial list) police brutality, sweatshops, child labor and war. Yes, I have a job and I pay taxes. I even have a life. It's pathetic to have to declare all this on a "progressive" discussion board but there it is. You're not as progressive as you think.
good nutrition is. Doctors don't do it, corporations don't do it (lol), "journalists" don't do it. Someone needs to do it. And in spite of the defensive squeals to the contrary, most liberals don't do so in an offensive manner. In fact, most go out of their way to be considerate. It amazes me that no matter how diplomatic a poster on DU (a progressive website the last time I checked) tries to be when posting info about good nutrition, the majority of the responses are rude or defensive. I am not a vegan, a vegetarian, or even a particularly healthy eater. Nevertheless, I appreciate fact based information, and do not get defensive when it is provided.
