{"id":53393,"date":"2024-10-12T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=53393"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:46:50","slug":"qotd-from-conspicuous-consumption-to-junk-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/12\/qotd-from-conspicuous-consumption-to-junk-science\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: From conspicuous consumption to junk science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I used to be amused that Whole Foods could gouge its customers and get them to pay a &#8220;designer label premium&#8221; for regular groceries. Like patrons of Saks or Nieman Marcus, Whole Foods&#8217; affluent customers could feel a sense of affluent superiority to those who shop at mass market grocery stores. But it&#8217;s now clear that Whole Foods isn&#8217;t just putting a fancy hood ornament on its groceries &mdash; its business model also promotes fear &mdash; a fear that if you don&#8217;t stretch your wallet for &#8220;safe&#8221; organic groceries, then you are imperiling the health and safety of yourself and your loved ones. That is wicked. And very effective. The organic food obsessives I know include cash strapped individuals who do not have the means to afford the Whole Foods lifestyle. But they shop there anyhow. They have to. Out of fear.<\/p>\n<p>Buck Throckmorton, <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc:1080\/?post=384661\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Organic Food &#038; Anti-Vaxxers &#8211; Does The Fear of Safe Food Lead to Fear of Safe Vaccines&#8221;, <em>Ace of Spades H.Q.<\/em><\/a>, 2019-12-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be amused that Whole Foods could gouge its customers and get them to pay a &#8220;designer label premium&#8221; for regular groceries. Like patrons of Saks or Nieman Marcus, Whole Foods&#8217; affluent customers could feel a sense of affluent superiority to those who shop at mass market grocery stores. But it&#8217;s now clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,74,66,41,13],"tags":[377,39,428],"class_list":["post-53393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-conspicuousconsumption","tag-junkscience","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dTb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91878,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53393\/revisions\/91878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}