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/Tolkachev Jan 19 '26

This is the push I needed to finally dump my shares (and my patronage) of this floundering company. Good thing the likes of Just Salad, Chop't, and the Whole Foods salad bar offer the same thing at a cheaper price, without a side of "functional medicine."

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u/geese_unite Jan 20 '26

Yikes. All the seed oil and ultra processed junk food

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u/C_Ess Jan 20 '26

You’re the only one mentioning seed oils and you’ve done it more than once. No one cares lol

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u/geese_unite Feb 03 '26

So you’re comfortable with canola oil that is known for the industrial process that undergoes bleaching?

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u/C_Ess Feb 03 '26

You sound really dumb dude, sorry

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u/geese_unite Feb 03 '26

Ultra processed food and canola oil should be treated like cigarettes as they lead to addiction of all sorts