"In her book and on her blog, Hari plays this game of malicious metonymy again and again, leveraging..."

“In her book and on her blog, Hari plays this game of malicious metonymy again and again, leveraging common motifs of disgust, such as excrement and body parts, all the while deliberately confusing the source and uses of material with the molecules themselves. She wants you to be (…) horrified that L-cysteine, added to bread dough to make it easier to handle, is extracted from chicken feathers, or worse yet, human hair. I admit this last example sounds incredibly gross. But L-cysteine is a common, naturally occurring amino acid, and it’s already present in the flour and in the human body. The commercial version is a white crystalline material, soluble in water, with not a feather remnant or stray hair to be found….don’t let the Food Babe distract you from asking the right questions with middle school–style rumors”

- Michelle M. Francl’s story on Food Babe’s BS