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I'm a radical. A ghost. A revolutionary. I walk into grocery stores like a soldier stepping onto a battlefield. I load my cart with a hundred items—towering stacks of ultra‑processed snacks and false promises. Then I vanish. I leave that cart behind like a live grenade, abandoned in the middle of Aisle 4. Fully loaded. Cold. Silent. No checkout. No...

For decades, the global obesity crisis has grown in silence—ballooning waistlines, rising healthcare costs, and millions of lives shortened. Yet most lawmakers have remained passive, treating obesity as a personal issue rather than a systemic one. The dominant narrative is simple: if you're overweight, it's your fault. You ate too much. You moved...

The Delboeuf illusion is one of the most powerful and underestimated psychological distortions influencing how humans perceive size, fullness, and quantity. At its core, the illusion shows that two identical objects can appear dramatically different depending on the size of the surrounding space. In the classic version, two circles of the same size...

I chose the meerkat as the symbol of the Nope Haul movement for a deeply personal reason—one that I used to be embarrassed to admit. My own body, with its thin arms and legs and a round, protruding belly, looks a bit like a chubby meerkat standing upright. For a long time, this resemblance felt like a joke at my...

As a radical Nopehaul activist, I filled another shopping cart to the brim in a busy supermarket — and walked away. Not out of waste. Out of protest.

I've just filled another shopping cart with over a hundred different food items — and left it behind. This was the fourth time. Not out of waste, but out of protest. A protest against a system that quietly drains families, destabilizes economies, and pretends it's all just "consumer choice."

Today I did it again. For the third time, I filled a shopping cart with more than a hundred different food items — and walked away from it. Not because I wanted to waste food, but because I refuse to stay silent while a broken system pushes millions toward hunger.

As the second act of the Nopehaul Revolution, I filled yet another shopping cart in a massive supermarket with more than a hundred different food items—and left it there. Yes, again. Because this madness has to stop.