5:00am October 25, 2013

➸ slashmarks: modern food movements are ableist as fuck and i'm over it

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blasphemefatale:

Members of modern food movements (veganism, locavorism, whatever, have your pick) spend approximately 10% of their time devoted to eating how they think they should eat, and 90% of their time shaming those who refuse to or can’t…

Yes! I can’t stand anything on the order of calling food “edible food-like substances” or other Michael Pollan bullshit either.

What really sucks? I have a book on tubefeeding. The first half of the book is excellent. But the guy got all of his ideas about food from Michael Pollan. So the entire second half of the book, supposed to be dedicated to instructions on how to create your own food for tubefeeding, is full of judgemental bullshit and recipes that include things like “must be organic” in the instructions.

(I don’t think any recipe should ever say “must be organic” or have “organic” in the descriptions. Recipes are supposed to be about how to make food. They’re not supposed to be about how to pick out the food that goes into the recipe, when that makes absolutely no difference in what the food will be like other than things that ought to be left as a matter of personal taste. And as a former orthorexic, as well as just as a disabled person who couldn’t possibly eat the way he describes, I found the second half of the book so triggering that I had to continuously snark it just to get through it. Which sucks because this is the only book on tubefeeding by tubies for tubies and he had to ruin it by pushing his own ideas about food. But then many times, the reason someone goes off of formula and onto other kinds of food is less about health and personal choice and more about food fanaticism. I’ve actually gotten shit from people for sticking with Osmolite even though as someone using a j-tube for feeding that clogs constantly, there’s no way I could use regular food to create a blended diet. I would have to basically get the same sorts of ingredients that are in Osmolite and similar formulas, and recreate it by hand. Because using ordinary food would be clog city, among other reasons. Plus all the foods that people ordinarily use in blended diets are high fiber which is really really really bad for my body even if I could get them into it without constantly clogging the tube.)

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