The civil rights advocacy group Southern Poverty Law Center issued an alert yesterday over what it termed an “alarming” rise in gluten-intolerance in Boulder. The group cited overt anti-gluten messaging in the media and on food packaging, and the formation of vocal gluten-hate groups. “Gluten intolerance has become socially acceptable in Boulder,” said SPLC president Richard Cohen at a press conference highlighting the alert. “People talk openly about it at the grocery store or walking on the Mall. Most disturbingly, it’s even become ‘in’ to be gluten-intolerant in Boulder.”
Cohen said that in one bright spot, his organization has seen no increase recently in incidents of lactose intolerance.
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared in the April Fools Edition of the Blue Line (4/1/2011).
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First They came… – Pastor Martin Niemoller
First they came for the gluten,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t into gluten.
Then they came for the milk,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t into lactose.
Then they came for the peanuts,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t into peanuts.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.