Lament of the Mind

commonlynonsensical:

while I’m here:

• aspartame does not give you cancer
• gluten is not bad for you if you’re not allergic/don’t have celiac disease
• superfoods aren’t real, they’re just healthy things with maybe some nicer levels of certain vitamins
  
• vaccines do not cause autism or really anything else and the chemicals present in them that typically scare you are in such minute amounts that they do precisely fuck-all in your body (we’re talking scales of one part per million)
• you cannot do a cleanse or diet to “rid your body of toxins,” your kidneys and liver have that covered
• GMO foods will not kill you; most genetic crop modification just makes our crops hardier and produce more food (and genetic modification doesn’t inject more chemicals into your food, it’s just minor altering of DNA that is made of the exact same stuff your DNA is made from)
• if you feed your cat a vegan diet I will personally come to your home with the skull of a long-dead predator, point out the shape of its jaw and teeth as indicators of predatory feeding habits, and then beat you with it