Lunchtime is the perfect time to bring up In-N-Out! Yum! But this may make you lose your appetite. Here is an example of how the Food Babe,aka Vani Hari, misleads, incites fear and downright lies. Since she fabricates facts specifically about sugar beets, I am compelled to correct her error. Our sugar beets are most definitely not “heavily treated with Monsanto’s Roundup”. We use less than a Starbucks grande-size cup of herbicide PER ACRE. On the subject of carcinogens, Roundup is pretty much equivalent to coffee as being a “probable carcinogen”. As for her comment that their sauce contributes to Type 2 Diabetes “especially in children” (again, fear-mongering), the amount of sauce on an occasional double-double will not solely make you diabetic. Everything in moderation! And because of her concern for diabetics, Food Babe would be horrified to learn that insulin is genetically engineered. 

So you see, this is a snapshot of what floats around on the interwebs every day. False claims and statements made by people who obviously have no interest in the truth because they don’t bother to ask a farmer, that are devoured hook, line and sinker by impressionable, frightened folks who have no idea where food comes from. Call these activists what you will: crazies, hippies, nut cases – maybe. But by having financial support from special interest groups, one thing they surely are is effective. Agriculture, on the other hand, is supported by science and farmers need to use that science to calm the fears and get the truth out there.