When food woo goes too far
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dinadyna21 wrote: »We had a conversation last night about it, he still doesn't see why what he did was crazy. At this point I've given up on trying to convince him otherwise.
I told him I'm not buying any more food for him, just myself. He did agree not to mess with my food anymore, which I'll take as a win. As for paying for what he damaged, he said he couldn't afford to right now but he would try to set aside money from his paycheck to do so. At this point I'm gonna take it as a loss, and a lesson learned to never live with my siblings ever again.
I'm really not sure I could afford to let him get away with that... I guess if you've been feeding him up until now then you've got the extra slack in your budget though. Replacing all my seasonings at once could easily kill a weeks' food budget for me! Or more, since I tend to bulk buy some things.
Ignore the diet rubbish - what he did was theft. Taking with intent to permanently deprive in the UK. That is what makes it crazy IMO. I'm obviously not suggesting you go to the police, but pointing out that you'd be justified in doing so might be the wake up call he needs?
Have to admit, I'd be intrigued to know how long he sticks with the "non organic food will kill you" lark when he's got to pay for it out of his own pocket, given that he is apparently poor enough to have his sister buy his food for him... starving is unambigously detrimental to one's health!7 -
What is it with these chiropractors any more - why can't they just do what they were trained to do and leave nutrition out of it? One here has one of my friends completely fooled about Organic, Free Range, Grass Fed, etc too. She keeps telling me as long as she eats the organic version she will maintain her weight and stay healthy. I keep telling her she can eat TOO much organic food too - it's not like it magically doesn't have calories. She disagrees, saying that if you eat healthy food you can't overeat. I laugh because I can put down some organic pecans like the next girl...
I LIKE to buy good grass fed stuff, but sometimes it just doesn't fit into my budget. I see the benefit, but I'm not that nieve to believe that other food is full of toxins either.
People can believe what they wish. But don't start pushing that BS on me. I'm sorry about your brother, OP. I'd make him pay you back for the food, even if it has to be over time (if he's limited on funds). Please don't let him get away with that.6 -
dinadyna21 wrote: »@malibu927 I told him I expect him to pay it back, he didn't say much after that and went to his room. The worst part is I buy all our food because he doesn't make much, if he wanted me to buy something different he could've asked and I would try to accommodate.
Unfortunately we're roommates until February when I'll be moving out and getting my own place. I love my brother but he's gone nuts.
Oh.
Hell.
No.
If I was you I would make a new rule, effective immediately. Wanna eat? Buy your own bleeping food. Don't like the food that I am buying for YOU? Don't eat it! The end, love, your sister.
Eta - I should have read the whole thread first. Good for you!
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A woo-peddling chiropractor had me visit her 4 times a week for my health, caught my vertebral artery between 2 vertebrae and caused me to have a massive stroke and re-learn speaking, walking, and almost cost me my life. Tell him to buy you the vegetables again and I'd express my concern for HIS health.4
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Where did you learn the facts that you believe in? How do you KNOW your facts aren't woo?
https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/
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Rosemary7391 wrote: »dinadyna21 wrote: »We had a conversation last night about it, he still doesn't see why what he did was crazy. At this point I've given up on trying to convince him otherwise.
I told him I'm not buying any more food for him, just myself. He did agree not to mess with my food anymore, which I'll take as a win. As for paying for what he damaged, he said he couldn't afford to right now but he would try to set aside money from his paycheck to do so. At this point I'm gonna take it as a loss, and a lesson learned to never live with my siblings ever again.
I'm really not sure I could afford to let him get away with that... I guess if you've been feeding him up until now then you've got the extra slack in your budget though. Replacing all my seasonings at once could easily kill a weeks' food budget for me! Or more, since I tend to bulk buy some things.
Ignore the diet rubbish - what he did was theft. Taking with intent to permanently deprive in the UK. That is what makes it crazy IMO. I'm obviously not suggesting you go to the police, but pointing out that you'd be justified in doing so might be the wake up call he needs?
Have to admit, I'd be intrigued to know how long he sticks with the "non organic food will kill you" lark when he's got to pay for it out of his own pocket, given that he is apparently poor enough to have his sister buy his food for him... starving is unambigously detrimental to one's health!
He'll learn pretty quickly now that he's buying food for himself. Organic is nice but it's not cheap, one of the many reasons I refused to buy organic is because I wanted enough food for all of us to last. No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
Unfortunately, he's not the worst in a long list of thefts perpetuated by the members of my family. A story for another time, but the short of it is my family is *kitten* crazy.1 -
No, it doesn't. I'm more questioning her immediate judgment of the chiro's knowledge (which none of us know exactly what he and his patient discussed) and what makes her knowledge of diet more valid than the chiro's. I see a lot of immediate judgment on these forums and for people who speak about science so highly, you'd think they would understand that science is built on the premise of new ideas and open mindedness. Louis Pasteur rejected spontaneous generation and was criticized for it until he had solid repeatable evidence (this seems pretty accepted now). Darwin, oh boy nobody liked him when he was developing the theory of evolution (there are people who still reject this, that's fine). Then there's the whole earth isn't the center of the universe debacle (not sure how this fits into the current flat earth situation). Oh, how about the researcher who downed a test tube of H. pylori to demonstrate that it can cause ulcers.
No, it is not. That is complete and total *kitten*. Science is built on sketching out theories based on existing data, testing out those theories rigorously, having others attempt to poke holes in your theories by replicating your experiments or reviewing your data for biases and errors, and THEN if it passes all that it gets accepted. People like Darwin were not sitting outside dreaming one day, and Darwin wasn't even the first one to come up with the idea of evolution. What he brought to the game was observable and repeatable data. (Oh and plenty of his generation liked him just fine.)
Pasteur built his work on others, including Francesco Redi who was two centuries before him. It was his use of the scientific method and repeatable experiments that mattered.
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