Cynical Me...

[elfs]

Yesterday, I posted a brief entry illustrating how my weight loss bodyfat reconfiguration program is going. In it, I quoted a brief exerpt from an editorial posted in the Journal of the American Medical Association about "nutritionalism," and followed up with a pithy summary of the (long) editorial: "Eat food, mostly plants, not too much."

As most people who read this blog know, that's from Michael Pollan. He's posted it in several places, it's quoted all over the Internet, and it's in all of his books.

This morning, I get an anonymous comment that says,

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants"
In Defense of Food.
Michael Pollen
Great book!

Is it just me, or does the brevity, precision, and content of the message scream robot!? It's as if Pollan (or his publisher) has a program out there that, every time someone quotes him without attribution, makes sure that the comment thread somewhere contains source information.

I'm half-tempted to delete the comment and mark it as spam. Only the misspelling of Pollan's name stops me. (And maybe that's what they want you to think.)

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I won't delete it. I'm just turning cynical in my old age. I mean, if the US Military is hiring grey-hat hackers to create propaganda-bots on Facebook and Twitter, so too would industries create the same to make sure their products get pimped correctly.

And it is a great book. So was "food rules": If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don't.