Paleo Pete Evans Gives Another BS Interview & Oh God He Never Blinks

Pete Evans, celebrity chef and unshutuppable paleo evangelist, featured on this evening's 'Sunday Night' in an interview touted as an effort to "address his critics".

But more importantly, the interview is a portrait of a deeply unnerving man who has the mannerisms of a cult leader and the blinding-white, unblinking smile of a couch-jumping Tom Cruise. 

It's not hard to understand how he's so thoroughly won over millions of people to his bone-broth-and-offal-sucking, food-as-medicine lifestyle, which he purports can cure diabetes in six to eight weeks.

Just look at how his wife of one year, New Zealand model Nicola Robinson, talks about her sinful old ways:

As Cullen rightly points out, Evans' appearances before hordes of his fans, who call themselves The Tribe, have all the hallmarks and atmosphere of a church service – complete with blameless, persecuted holy leader.

When asked why he got into so much trouble for his ill-fated Bubba Yum Yum ^[1]book, which contained a recipe for babies that consisted of bone broth and liver, Evans responded:

"Because a journalist wrote a lie about it, which then got regurgitated through all the media outlets that said 'Pete Evans promotes bone broth over breastmilk'. And I never said that."

Mm, okay, Pete, but as Dr Brad McKay says on the same program, the recipe that you put in that book does contain enough vitamin A to cause unweaned infants serious harm. 

It's a great bit of TV^[2], if only for allowing us a chilling glimpse into how a significant portion of the population think: entirely incorrectly, to the point of endangering babies. Cool!

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1. ^{^} Bubba Yum Yum  (www.pedestrian.tv)
2. ^{^} a great bit of TV (au.news.yahoo.com)