Food Babe Visits My University
It was 6:30 pm in the lab and I was just thinking about the last things I'd need to get done before I could go home. Typical night. Usually I'm riding home about 7 pm, but an email popped up asking me if I was going to go watch the Food Babe. A click on a link would take me to the note on a UF Dean for Students Good Food Revolution Events website. Vani Hari would be spreading her corrupt message of bogus science and abject food terrorism here at the University of Florida. Oh joy. There's something that dies inside when you are a faculty member that works hard to teach about food, farming and science, and your own university brings in a crackpot to unravel all of the information you have brought to students. She might have started from honest roots. Her story says she was duped by an organic yogurt stand (join the club) into buying taro toppings that were filled with artificial, non-organic colors. She realized that she could use social media to coalesce