One of Erewhon’s featured drinks over the past year is not another raw vegan concoction named after a supermodel: it’s a “raw, animal-based” drink created by one of America’s most famous male “meatfluencers”.
For $19, you can drink a smoothie made with powdered beef organs and unpasteurized milk, as part of the influencer Paul Saladino’s attempt to introduce Angelenos to his much-touted “carnivore diet”.
Edited to add this link (long and fascinating read):
I’m done trying to have any rational conversation about food, heath and science with people. Drink up the raw milk. Drink, drink, drink the magical sink…
I think there are two different things mixed in the discussion - this “meat” smoothie in the article which indeed sounds odd and I am not sure how much to trust the sources of the ingredients and raw milk (and subsequent cheese from raw milk) which Americans seem to have an unusual “fear” with - as with every ingredient (far beyond raw milk) it is important to know the source/maker but it is for example quite common in Europe (including cheese from raw milk) and I don’t think the life expectancy is lower in Europe because of it (more likely the opposite)