Guy figures out the perfect way to troll the gluten-free movement

The gluten-free health fad has been around for a while. But there’s been some serious debate about whether it actually has health benefits or is an all-out scam, with some studies claiming that gluten-intolerance doesn’t even exist – if you’re someone who doesn’t have celiac disease.

Now, an anonymous French blogger has figured out a way to troll people who are hardcore anti-glutenists. In a photo project titled Gluten Free Museum, all traces of the substance along with any foods that contain it, are completely excised (photoshopped) from famous works of art, illustrations, movie scenes, and posters.

Look:

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From the Washington Post’s Robert A. Ferdman:

Gluten, one of the most popular proteins on this planet, is also increasingly one of the most hated. Here in the United States, the gluten-free movement, which has been driven not only by an actual need among celiacs to avoid the food but also a widespread belief that letting bread, beer, pasta, and all other foods with gluten go means living healthier for almost anyone, is so pervasive that it might as well be a fact of American life. Some 20 million in this country claim that eating it causes them distress, according to The New Yorker. Another 100 million people, meanwhile, say that they are actively working to eliminate gluten from their diets.

And yet, amid the rise of the villainization of gluten, is a growing sense that something about the movement seems a bit off. The New Yorker’s Michael Specter’s recent deep dive into the fad brought to surface a number of legitimate gripes, including the lack of scientific evidence supporting the belief that going gluten-free is better for one’s health.

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There is a subtle brilliance in removing all traces of gluten from an experience as subjective as art. The removal of gluten from the pieces is an arbitrary stroke, much as one might argue removing gluten from one’s diet is. The mood, composition, and feel of each frame, also changes drastically with the subtraction of gluten because, as the project reveals, gluten is ubiquitous, even in paintings, posters, and picture frames. And, though many if not all of the images lose part of their essence when stripped of gluten, the reality is that some people might even find them more palatable. And who is to say that they’re wrong?

Sky Palma

Before launching DeadState back in 2012, Sky Palma has been blogging about politics, social issues and religion for over a decade. He lives in Los Angeles and also enjoys Brazilian jiu jitsu, chess, music and art.

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