Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

For many people, a restrictive diet, fast, or "cure" is undertaken for the purpose of being seen...more as a cure for bourgeois despair than any true illness. In the absence of kashruth rooted in religion and culture, folks will "buy" some guru's fad version of dietary orthopraxy

A world in which all foods are available, from mass produced garbage to artisanal bespoke brunches, is a bewildering world that causes many to feel despair at their dietary rootlessness. And so they cast about for some light out of the dim, some paleo/vegan/etc. path to truth

Many reasons are invented for these diets, from saving the planet by reducing meat consumption to boosting protein intake for training (few people, me included, are training for any event of genuine importance), but even if true or truthy are for the holder an article of faith