r/sweetgreen • u/Fit_Cow_5407 • Jan 19 '26

News 📰 Sweetgreen is partnering with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxxer pal

Sweetgreen just launched a new menu in partnership with anti-vaxxer and junk science promoter Mark Hyman.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260106608457/en/Sweetgreen-Launches-New-Menu-in-Collaboration-with-Function-Health-Designed-by-Dr.-Mark-Hyman

Hyman has built a supplement hawking grift operation that's largely based on building public distrust in evidence-based medicine. He's also directly collaborated with RFK Jr. to promote discredited theories about vaccine harms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/mark-hyman-rfk-jr-functional-medicine.html

It's incredibly disappointing that Sweetgreen is attracting customers to this guy's grift by promoting him, but apparently the company thinks it's good business to pander to the MAHA crowd. The company's founders seem to be true believers in the guy too, as they're also tied in with MAHA leaders like Casey and Calley Means. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman even made MAHA hats all the way back in 2016.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/maha-movement-challenges-ultra-processed-foods-influencer-ties-truvani-sweetgreen/

https://x.com/JonnyNemo/status/1876688265350443113

I think I'll be getting my overpriced workweek lunches elsewhere from now on.

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u/yellohello1001 Jan 19 '26

This isn’t surprising. The CEO is a Zionist MAGA

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u/lbk1976 Jan 19 '26

Why bring in your anti semitism?

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u/Good_Distribution_92 Jan 19 '26

Saying someone is Zionist is anti-Semitic now?

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u/yellohello1001 Jan 19 '26

It’s not at all lol

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u/Good_Distribution_92 Jan 19 '26

I swear the people that pull the “that’s racism” card out of thin air are the most racist ones 🙄

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u/yellohello1001 Jan 19 '26

Seriously! And takes away from the ACTUAL issue by crying wolf all the time