An LA grocery called Erewhon sells a "raw, animal-based" smoothie made with powdered beef organs & a unpasteurized milk drink created by a famous male "meatfluencer". It's $19. [CW: contents]
An LA grocery called Erewhon sells a "raw, animal-based" smoothie made with powdered beef organs & a unpasteurized milk drink created by a famous male "meatfluencer". It's $19. [CW: contents]
One of Erewhon's featured drinks over the past year is not another raw vegan concoction named after a supermodel: it's a "raw, animal-based" drink created by one of America's most famous male "meatfluencers". For $19, you can drink a smoothie made with powdered beef organs and unpasteurized milk, as part of the influencer Paul Saladino's attempt to introduce Angelenos to his much-touted "carnivore diet".
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Saladino, who once called himself "CarnivoreMD", rose to prominence alongside Jordan Peterson and other meat diet influencers. On his website, Saladino warns his followers against eating plants, saying they are likely to be harmful, and calling vegetables from kale and broccoli to tomatoes and soybeans "bullshit foods" that may do more harm than good. (Saladino did not respond to a request for comment.)
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The smoothie's ingredients include a supplement powder made from uncooked, freeze-dried beef liver, heart, kidney, spleen and pancreas, blended with more typical smoothie ingredients, including blueberries, banana and honey. It's topped with whipped coconut cream blended with powdered cow colostrum, the nutrient-rich milk cows produce after giving birth.
"The name is giving cruelty. Like, should I call Peta?" one aspiring TikTok influencer quipped, dubbing it "the most un-LA smoothie ever". [...] "Dr Paul's Raw Animal Smoothie" has gone minorly viral on TikTok.
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Erewhon (a rearrangement of the word "nowhere") has been a gathering place for devotees of countercultural diet trends since its founding in Boston in the 1960s, where it reportedly survived an early raid by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Today, it is a California grocery store so luxurious it has inspired a Louis Vuitton fragrance and a collaboration with Balenciaga.
The grocery store has long sold raw milk, a controversial product with passionate defenders, particularly in California, where it can be sold legally in retail stores. Wellness entrepreneurs including Gwyneth Paltrow have endorsed it, even as parents whose children have become seriously ill after drinking raw milk campaign against it. Twenty other states prohibit the sale of raw milk within state borders, though a handful of them are now moving to legalize it for commercial sale.
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Bill Hicks had the standup line "I ain't no doctor - but I seen one on the teevee." Updated it becomes: "I ain't no doctor - but I see meatfluences on Tiktok and Youtube." I seriously don't want to google phrases like "TiktokMD" or "Doctube" because I assume they actually exist.
"I got stomach cancer. Stage 3. The doctors said my treatment was gonna be surgery and lots of expensive drugs and lots of chemo. I was gonna feel sick all the time. It was gonna hurt. And it was gonna be real expensive too! I didn't want that. So I watched Doctube and TiktokMD instead. The meat and supplements I use use only cost me $2,000 a year. That sounds like a lot but it's a bargain. And I can feel the cancer going away..."
Once had a guy tell me his mom beat cancer by switching to an organic diet. Didn't really delve into it or ask if it was a cancer that can go into remission on its own.
Sometimes I think I really need to leave my hermitage more often and be out and about in the world. But then I think - maybe it's better if I leave less often. Hell can be other people.
Once had a guy tell me his mom beat cancer
If I was in a similar spot - I think all I would do is fill up my side of the convo with words and phrases like "oh", "mmm", and "I see." As fast as was polite - I'd pretend I had some issue, problem, or even an emergency to deal with and leave. In real life - I don't want to argue about such things. But I absolutely don't want to hear such toxic nonsense.