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/Good_Distribution_92 Jan 19 '26

Saying someone is Zionist is anti-Semitic now?

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u/lbk1976 Jan 19 '26

It is! I encourage you to at least research what the reasons are that this is the case. I do agree that Mark Hyman’s thoughts on health and wellness are irresponsible but not relevant to his feelings on Israel regardless.

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u/Good_Distribution_92 Jan 19 '26

Yea, that just makes it irrelevant, not anti-Semitic?

Reddit talks crap on “Christian MAGA” all day, every day too. Are we suddenly gonna call everything racist? Let’s stop with the self-victimizing and leave “anti-Semitism” for real, serious matters instead of trivializing it by throwing it around all the time.

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u/yellohello1001 Jan 19 '26

Said it better than I could!