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Regional Queensland’s premier bookshop has today drawn a line in the sand between dietary self-help and potentially dangerous cult-like trends.
QBD, the only in-store book retailer in the greater Betoota region, has said that they will not be ‘drinking the Kool-aid’ of Celebrity Chef Pete Evans, also known as ‘Paleo Pete’ – who has in the past suggested that children should not be eating fibre and that three-meals-per-day is a dangerous concept for humankind.
Betoota QBD manager, Barb (59) says she’ll happily sell Paleo Pete’s books to anyone stupid enough to jump on the bandwagon, but she couldn’t possibly bring herself to put it in any section other than ‘fiction’.
“My niece is a paleo. She seems to like it”
“But this man is spouting something far more dangerous than that”
“I mean stone the crows, does he really reckon we should stop feeding infants breastmilk”
This not the first time Evans has been under fire for playing God, with his controversial baby paleo cookbook, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way for new mums, babies & toddlers, having to be released over iTunes because publisher would touch it.
A DIY baby formula made from blended livers, bone broth and oils caused dietitians the most concern.
“In my view, there’s a very real possibility that a baby may die if this book goes ahead,” president of the Public Health Association of Australia, Professor Heather Yeatman.
“We live in a society that tells us our infants are supposed to depend on milk that comes out of their mothers teat. What are we dealing with here? Babies or cows?”
