I open up my Instagram feed to see a post describing “What it feels like trying to avoid toxins in 2024.” There’s a picture of one of those Little Tikes cars (the ones that our kids ride up and down the driveway like Fred Flintstone) being chased on a busy highway by real cars labeled seed oils, soy, heavy metals, Monsanto, blue light, tap water, receipts, microplastics and glyphosate.

A scary picture indeed, highly effective at appealing to our emotions. Social media algorithms are constantly feeding us content about the harms of everything we encounter in the real world. Videos of influencers with millions of followers running frantically down the aisles of the grocery store, reading off ingredients with a…