Here’s some news that might come as a big surprise to you: A baby cookbook called Bubba Yum Yum written by a TV chef, a mommy blogger and a naturopath may not be as safe as previously thought. Sure, it might stop your baby from developing autism, but only because your baby will be dead. (Better dead than neuroatypical, though, right?) (Wasn’t that the anti-communist slogan back in the 50s?)
Wonkette reports that the book, which was already written and ready for publication, has been shelved forever due to safety concerns. Australian TV Chef Pete Evans and his co-authors first raised red flags when they suggested that instead of feeding a baby formula, which has “too many chemicals,” parents should create their own baby food from “chicken liver and bone broth,” which sounds delicious, but holds more than ten times the maximum Vitamin A that a baby can take, making it a toxic concoction that would likely hurt one’s child. But hey, at least the child wouldn’t be autistic, right? That would be horrible.
Fearing that parents might take the idiotic advice in the book to heart and stop giving their babies actual baby food that has been approved by science and doctors and other people who have degrees in baby-related stuff, the publisher stopped the book from hitting stores in order to save babies everywhere. Or because they wanted to avoid the lawsuits that would inevitably come from the people who actually bought the book.