“Eat forcibly healthy”-Y-collective: God lives in minced meat

It would be easy to laugh about it: a man like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was once regarded as unsuitable for the office because of his violent cocaine consumption, who denies knowledge about AIDS and categorically rejects vaccinations today. He also likes to share his eating habits. At an event in 2023, Kennedy said that he likes to drink raw milk. And that the American nutritional authority FDA “suppresses untreated foods” aggressively “, even though they are” beneficial to human health “.

In enlightened circles, however, the pasteurization of animal milk is an important achievement, because this reduces bacteria such as Salmonella or E. coli to a minimum. The idea that vaccinations are bad and untreated foods are healthier than processed, but not only caught in the country of unlimited stupidities.

»My address is ten out of ten:› Babe, I am unaschivated ‹. I eat meat, meat, meat, as much as I war, so it sounds in the song “Young, Brutal, Healthy”, a collaboration of the German rap duo genetics and the “raw gang”: these are the influencer Aaron Badou and Fabian Kowallik, which in the music video hold into “young, brutal, healthy” fruit and vegetables.

The influencers reject sugar, salt and tap water.

Badou and Kowallik understand themselves as fitness and health ambassadors for young people. On Instagram and Tikok, they propagate the consumption of unprocessed foods, especially meat, eggs, fruit, vegetables and milk. Salt, sugar and tap water are their declared enemies, processed foods often describe them as “poison”. On the other hand, they refer to everything that is raw as “God’s food”-especially of course their own products such as a raw honey that you can buy from “young, brutal, healthy” together with the single CD (!).

Also about this could be laughed, but: the influence of the “raw gang” on young people shows a documentary of the reporting network “Y-collective”, which can be found in the ARD media library: “Eat for compulsively healthy – how a nutritional hype can make sick”. In it, the journalist Katja Döhne meets a young man, among other things, who describes his first contact with the “raw gang” as a kind of spiritual experience and now follows the nutritional rules of influencers. In the further course, the documentary is about orthorexia, a form of eating disorder in which those affected suffer mentally due to an extreme regulation of their diet. However, the documentary also reveals another aspect: The fact that the two influencers Badou and Kowallik speak of “God’s food” is more than an attempt to give their chosen products a pithy term. The nutritional program is often actively connected to religious stories.

For example, Badou speaks of food “who were not processed by the devil”, and Kowallik explains on the same channel, on which he just fabuled the supposedly healthy advantages of raw meat, why children need “mom and dad”. In another video he wears a sweater with the lettering “God created theme and female”. It is the English translation from the book of Genesis in the Old Testament: “As a man and woman, he created her”. Coupled with other content, such as the consistent rejection of sunscreen as “unnatural”, a picture arises: What Badou, Kowallik and other nutritional and fitness influencers propagate is a essentially antimodent mindset that is expressed in the rejection of “industrial products”, food corporations and transnational organizations. Religious, quasi-religious and alternative medical content are described positively.

The two influencers use only very selectively on science. If certain studies support their own narrative, they are often cited. If you contradict the conviction, you are not mentioned or there is a diffuse reference to the gut feeling and “own experiences”. For the time being, as the US Minister of Health, the right and other enemies have been going on with the finding of truth-and it would be easy to laugh about it would not work.

“Eat for compulsively healthy – how a nutritional hype can make sick”ARD media library