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Food Neutrality and Decolonizing Diet Culture
from The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316 · #316
6 min
Tim and his guest dig into an LA Unified School District Instagram promotion pushing 'food neutrality,' arguing there's no difference between carrots and carrot cake, and mocking the idea that judging food choices is bigoted.
- Tim discusses an article arguing that junk food is no longer a meaningful category and that worrying about diet is a form of mental colonization.
- A company hired a woman from Africa to promote the idea that focusing on healthy eating is inherently bigoted and that people should eat without guilt.
- Tim suspects that people obsessed with lean meats, healthy fats, and good carbs are fascists, though he admits he's only now learning this was laid out in theory.
- If your body feels sick after eating junk food, that's actually your body reinforcing racist and bigoted attitudes rather than a physical response.
- The LA School District shared a viral video promoting food neutrality to teach children there is no difference between healthy food and unhealthy food.
- Tim jokes that teaching children there's no difference between a carrot and carrot cake is Nazi ideology.
- Food neutrality is compared to net neutrality, a concept nobody actually understood but everyone debated intensely.
- There are only three legitimately bad foods: rotten food, poisoned food, and food poisoned like Putin poisoned Litvinenko with polonium.
- Food neutrality means eating whatever you want without guilt—ice cream, cake, candy—and refusing vegetables if you don't want them.
- A school district is promoting this no-guilt eating philosophy to children on Instagram, which is probably less harmful than TikTok but still crazy.
LA Unified School DistrictKara Niam Deopfood culture and nutrition