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
Certainly. That's why cultures, religions, and even fad diets are built around these principles. It gives people something
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Oh, for sure. It just happened that I was showering after reading your tweets and it got me thinking _why_ people get so into diets. I mean the really wacky ones. Carnivore, keto outside of the strict form used for epilepsy, dumpster divers. It’s much more scattershot.
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The carnivore community has really taken on cult-like qualities, with people like Mark and Chris Bell as meathead messiahs (who are getting hundreds of pounds of free meat from the companies they're partnered with).
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