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Fighting disinformation around agriculture can be frustrating. Just like a hydra, whenever you manage to slay (er, discredit) one influencer, three more pop up in his or her place. Because deceitful statements boiled down to “common sense” is easier to understand than a lot of science.
But things are about to get really interesting now that media outlets are more aggressively sidestepping honesty while powerful (yet divisive) figures such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are getting their claws into the D.C. policymakers. Will someone else rise to take his place on the outside? Will these steps invite his like-minded financiers and influencers to the deepest dungeons of the federal government?
Couple that with Facebook’s and Instagram’s parent company Meta deciding that it will basically become the wild west of (dis)information without any sort of fact-checking, we’re finding ourselves in a true “God forbid” kind of scenario!
In light of this power vacuum, let’s round up (pun intended) the current crop of major anti-science, farmer-hating, gaslighting villains!
1. BobbyParrish/FlavCity
Major platform: Facebook
Followers as of 2025: 5.3 million
Known for: Bobby Parrish’s main gig is teaching people all about healthy cooking and eating. But while he might have some talent in the kitchen, he’s not the sharpest knife in the set. Most of his dumb comments are videos of him in the grocery store aisles spewing disinformation and shaming people’s food choices. If you need a reason to advocate for more science education, follow Bobby.
2. Plant Based News
Major platform: Instagram
Followers as of 2025: 1.3 million
Known for: If you’re looking for a daily dose of anti-animal-agriculture snark, this is the place for you. It’s less about news than it is about memes, videos, and vegan quips. Don’t worry it still has room for some anti-GMO content amongst all the mEaT kIlLz propaganda.
3. Dr. Josh Axe
Major platform: Instagram
Followers as of 2025: 1.1 million
Known for: Josh is a holistic “doctor,” so he’s going to sell you a whole bunch of crap that doesn’t work. His material covers the gamut from anti-meat, anti-GMO, anti-conventional agriculture, and anti-vaccines. No matter who you are, according to him you probably have a sugar addiction and need a supplement-based detox. Bonus: Josh’s content frequently features Jillian Michaels, another celebrity that I’ve called out on more than one occasion.
4. The Detox Dudes/Joshua Macin
Major platform: Facebook
Followers as of 2025: 182,000
Known for: Joshua Macin is a Super Bro who loves giving other bros advice about being manly. Like every hero, he has a great backstory. After winning the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Pan-American championship, his health suddenly started to decline for no obvious reason. It was only when he rejected modern medicine that he grew stronger. Thank goodness because otherwise he wouldn’t have a job now.
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5. That Vegan Teacher
Major platform: TikTok
Followers as of 2025: 1.1 million
Known for: Everyone loves that quirky teacher from school who wears bright colors and has a bubbly personality. That’s Miss Kadie! As you can probably guess, she equates animal agriculture to the Holocaust and wants justice for animals. Perhaps the most egregious act though is that she’s forced her poor dog to suffer a vegan diet, too.
6. Taylor Dukes
Major platform: Instagram
Followers as of 2025: 272,000
Known for: Taylor is a nurse practitioner who found peddling pseudoscience online more appealing. She’s a big believer in detoxes and supplements (how original!), and she frequently engages in food shaming (eat this, not that!). Most of her content is just rinse, recycle, rebrand, repeat of her predecessors. She’s literally the blonde version of Food Babe.
7. Food Babe
Major platform: Instagram
Followers as of 2025: 2.1 million
Known for: Although she was completely discredited back in 2015 (best takedown ever!) Food Babe still makes the list just for the sheer size of her audience. At the height of her popularity she was eating yoga mats and scaring the CEOs of major food companies (to be fair, she is scary). Today she’s mostly selling her line of unproven supplements, detoxes, and cleanses, but she also showed up to protest at Kellogg’s for using food dyes.
As we stated in the beginning, these are just some of the major anti-science players who are well-funded and particularly savvy social media. There are almost countless smaller ones, hoping to gain an edge out there as more and more of their allies ascend into leadership positions and social media platforms cut back on how strictly they monitor the content that gets delivered … all in the name of “free speech.”
Amanda Zaluckyj blogs under the name The Farmer’s Daughter USA. Her goal is to promote farmers and tackle the misinformation swirling around the U.S. food industry.
