What would be a Marxist analysis of the whole gluten free fad diet that's been going on for the past 10 years?

Some people can't eat gluten so companies started making gluten free shit to get that market. Then dumbshits who see "X free" on a label and think that's inherently healthy started buying it. Same dumb logic as low sodium or fat free. These things aren't bad for you, but our monkey brains are easily spooked into believing pretty much anything is bad for you.

Gluten is bourgeois.

No, it's MORE expensive than it used to be, and his illness is taken as a joke by people who think he's some new ager/hipster when he's seriously ill.

Do we really need a marxist analysis of everything?

It helps.

Anti-autism hysteria.

There's speculation that gluten either causes autism or gluten free relieves autistics of their symptoms (in particular, brain fog and lathargy).

Cutting gluten allegedly clears up brain fog and autism symptoms, making you more productive at work. Once again, this diet has everything to do with serving the will of your boss.

emptiness consumerist lifestyle + fear of death - reassurance offered by Faith = lurching from health fad to health fad

Only responses in this entire thread that make sense. Thanks.

Food is bourgeois.
True revolutionaries starve to death.

time to go to bed, Phil.

What's the anarchist analysis on this though :^)

but carbs do

Not exactly about gluten, but Zizek kind of talks about a similar thing in regards to organics and the like.
youtube.com/watch?v=Rzz6Odpbm64
youtu.be/hpAMbpQ8J7g?t=107

No clue what the Marxist analysis is, looks like that's maybe been covered. But I had an ex who claimed to have 'leaky gut syndrome' or something. He himself was a nutritionist. Basically, as a fad, pseudo-science is behind it - a bunch of straight-ahead bullshit pushed onto people who'd believe it and entrenched with little professional cults.

Eh. An irrelevant aside:
I'd probably buy organic produce if I could afford it, and part of the reason for that is quality (the old thing about the organics section being rotten and gross is kinda mostly false), but I admit the idea that it produces (and presumably contains) fewer pollutants is also appealing since it's an alternative to spraying poison all over plants and the air.

Being sick to own the bourgeoisie.

It doesn't do either of those things, though.

Cutting sugar works for 'brain fog' tho.

Stupid. I've never had an issue with organic food.

Zizek needs to shut up about things he knows nothing about.

But that's all he does.

Agreed. He's a meme philosopher for a reason.

I've found that sugarless coffee with some maca powder clears up my brain fog much better than laying off the wheat. Maca is a hormone balancer. Too bad you have to exploit Peruvian farmers in order to get it.

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Zizek is still a terrible theorist. Zig Forums only likes him because he's easy to understand and anti-idpol.

There is no noticeable difference between organic and non-organic. You only buy it because it makes you feel that you're performing some kind of civic duty (to help the environment, to help the community, to be healthier, etc) through your act of consumption. In this way, organic food, like all other forms of "ethical consumption" is merely a way of buying a pardon for only being a consumerist. This is the point Zizek is making.

Food with gluten isn't the only source of carbs, and many "gluten-free" products use other carbs as replacement for wheat, barley and rye, like rice.

There are certain foods that are noticeably different when organic vs. non-organic. See: dirty dozen.

Does Zizek boycott Israel?

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism so buying Israeli products isn't a bad idea, right?

You do realize DDT used to be used as a pesticide right? Besides I really don’t trust Kulaks to not used something really bad for my health if it was profitable.

Most of us who buy organic don't do so out of some myth of ethical consumption. We do it because some of us have bad reactions to pesticides.

user's question was about why people are buying non-gluten product, the post was meant to show how the phenomenon is similar to organic products in the sense that they are both being bought as some sort of feel good measure. He's not saying boycott the product, he's just explaining what is happening.

Okay but since when is GF advertised as environmental or ethical? I've only ever seen GF products advertised for their supposed health benefits (intestine health, brain health).

I think the similarity that is being pointed out is that they share the trait of only making you feel better about eating, working as some kind of moral justification for buying the product when in reality it doesn't do much of anything. This poundcake would be bad for me, but now its gluten-free so I feel better about it.

No one makes a moral argument for eating gluten free.

its gay af, my dad eat's that shit he's a faggot lmao i called him one and he started to cry and i put my cigarette out on his neck take that communists

Asking for a marxist analysis is just a meme way of saying "give me your opinion leftypol".

Moral probably isn't the right word then, but I can't really think of any other way to say it other then "false health justification".

burger farming is fucked up. They put very unhealthy things in the food in america. Most people don't understand the plight of the poor seppos. Organic food isn't that healthy though, it's only seen as healthy. Frozen veggies and such are more nutritionally valuable than buying fresh food. growing your own food in little home gardens is obviously choice, but not everyone can do that, and most can't do it to meet all their calorie needs et al

I read a book by an elite sports nutritionist a few weeks back. He ascribed it to the fact that modern diets are terrible for bowel health and the symptoms are in many cases wrongly blamed on gluten. He describes having many athletes under his care who lost their aversion to gluten after he'd been managing their diet for a few months.

True this. Gluten and casein are the new mercury-laced vaccines, in the sense that every white suburban family with an autistic kid is going to blame their kid's condition on these substances (because, you know, mini porkies NEVER have defective genetics or anything).

My mom once started buying gluten-free stuff. She is not celiac, she probably just saw someone on the TV saying gluten-free food is healthier and started buying it. But she eventually stopped doing it, probably because those things are expensive and tastes like shit. She just follows what doctors or other "specialists" say on the TV. She now also buys pink Himalayan salt and brown sugar, probably because someone on the TV said it's better. But that's all she does to be healthy. Fortunately, she isn't ill and isn't overweight, but she doesn't really care about what she eats (as long as the sugar is brown and it uses pink salt) and genuinely thinks just walking outside a few times a week counts as exercise. So, my guess is that porky just realized he could market those stuff as "healthier" alternatives to regular food to sell it to people like my mom.

keto diet is the only diet

Burger here, I'm going to tech school for Sustainable Ag, and it's a big topic.

Organic Ag had become bastardized by the capitalist, a label to mark up prices that doesn't necessarily correlate to higher quality food or beneficial environmental practices. What it was bastardized from, which is now referred to as Sustainable Ag, is a mostly legitimate venture with both environmental and health benefits, and is very necessary in burgerland. Our food system is the most fucked up in the world.

Mostly, it has to do with the way the soil is treated, and the varieties of plants being used. Soil is a living organism, not a static material, and needs to be engaged with as such, otherwise you kill it, which is what happens on conventional farm. Also, in burgerland, we've fucked up the breeds of veggies we have. Since the 50s, we've bred them to be bigger, store better, grow faster. However, this is mostly water weight, and comes at the price of being really flavorless, shitty food. The distinction Heirloom is a result, because here we need to distinguish between old things that are good and new things that we flavorcucked.

However, to zizecs example of organic apples, he has a point. Since most fruit trees are clones, cut and grafted, they were exempt from the breeding degradation. Any flavor problems in fruit trees has to do with them being picked at the wrong time of year, or possibly soil quality issues. So organic apples won't likely taste any different (but won't be covered in pesticides proven to be carcinogenic).

Also, GMOs are a problem, but only because they enable porky to get away with fucking up the soil and spraying new pesticides on us, not because the are 'unnatural'