In our business, manure is often referred to as a source of “double dipping” revenue—you pay to have it taken away and you pay to have it returned as compost—lucky hauler!
While my sympathies are with Paula Deen for having to suffer with type 2 diabetes, I’m horrified by the double, if not triple dipping she commits. For years, Ms. Deen has been promoting the most unhealthy (albeit tasty) recipes—butter, oil, sugar and more spilling off of the recipe pages. I am used to my chef friends saying ‘butter is your friend’ but ‘moderation’ is at least in the next sentence. Not the case with her brand of southern cooking.
So while Ms. Deen sat on her health news for several years (her right), she continued to profit from a kind of cooking which she knew was uncategorically dangerous. As of late, her recipes are being refashioned by her son, in a healthier format (dip #2). On top of all this, we learn that she is promoting a diabetes medicine (dip #3)—giving some, not all of her earnings to diabetes causes. Are you kidding me?
Let’s hope this is a wake up call to consumers—don’t be sucked in to blindly following celebrity chefs without critically thinking about what you’re buying into . . . Don’t let them profit at your expense.
-Lisa
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