Gordon Ramsay resigned as a spokesman for Tyson Foods in June 2024 because he did not want to promote bugs being used in its food products.
On June 10, 2024, a Facebook page called America – Love It Or Leave It published a post claiming Gordon Ramsay resigned as a spokesman for Tyson Foods because he did not want to endorse the use of bugs in the company’s food products.
America – Love It Or Leave It (ALIOLI) thanked the TV chef for allegedly saying: “I’m not interested in promoting bugs in food.”
The claim also appeared on X and elsewhere on Facebook, where one user appeared to believe it: “The left is attempting to condition us to survive off bugs for when they snatch everybody’s food sources.”
One person replied to ALIOLI’s post saying: “It’s astonishing that the food companies think we would go for such a thing in the first place!?”
Another wrote: “Good, who wants anything to do with bug base products.”
However, this item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. It was posted by ALIOLI, a Facebook account that described its output as being satirical in nature, as follows:
A subsidiary of the America’s Last Line of Defense network of trollery. Nothing on this page is real.
America’s Last Line of Defense (ALLOD), which was mentioned by the ALIOLI account, likewise described its content as satirical. Snopes addressed a separate satirical claim by ALLOD in an article published on May 30, 2024.
ALIOLI even commented on the Gordon Ramsay post, saying the chef “has nothing to do with” Tyson Foods and the fabricated story “truly is just ridiculous.”
Snopes found no evidence Ramsay was a spokesperson or ambassador for Tyson Foods, and likewise no news outlets reported he resigned from such roles.
We addressed another satirical post by ALIOLI on June 6, 2024, when the page jokingly claimed Beyoncé played her first country concert to a near-empty stadium.
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