This was a post on r/austin , which was, of course, removed by moderators, as so many are. I’m convinced that place is run by a bunch of fascist assholes, as the most important and relevant posts are locked or removed altogether.
This was not originally created or reported by me; I’m just re-posting.
Original link: https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1qmpsmr/sweetgreen_is_partnering_with_rfk_jrs_antivaxxer/
Here was the original content:
Sweetgreen, which just launched a new menu in partnership with anti-vaxxer and junk science promoter Mark Hyman.
Hyman has built a supplement hawking grift operation (based here in Austin) that’s largely based on building public distrust in evidence-based medicine. He’s also directly collaborated with RFK Jr. to promote discredited theories about vaccine harms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/mark-hyman-rfk-jr-functional-medicine.html
It’s incredibly disappointing that Sweetgreen is attracting customers to this guy’s grift by promoting him, but apparently the company thinks it’s good business to pander to the MAHA crowd. The company’s founders seem to be true believers in the guy too, as they’re also tied in with MAHA leaders like Casey and Calley Means. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman even made MAHA hats all the way back in 2016.
I think I’ll be getting my overpriced workweek lunches elsewhere from now on.
Thanks for the repost. Sincerely.
W.r.t the comment about the mods at r/austin, I have very little interaction with them. But the back and forth argument between OP and the mods in the old.reddit link you posted look to me like OP wasn’t behaving.
I’m not going to deep dive that further, since it isn’t this community, and would be meaningless anyway. Drama from Reddit has plenty of other spaces here on lemmy.
Thanks again for the general info though.