Raw Egg Nationalist

Charles Cornish-Dale, better known by his online aliasRaw Egg Nationalist(REN), is a Britishfar-rightinfluencer. He is the editor of the magazineMan's World, published in print byPassage Press. In 2022 he appeared onTucker Carlson's documentaryThe End of Men, increasing his popularity. While a pseudonymous writer, in 2024 his identity was disclosed by the British advocacy groupHope not Hate.
He has written several books promoting his views on nutrition and fitness, includingRaw Egg NationalismandThe Eggs Benedict Option.REN has been noted as an influential voice in the onlineraw foodmovement and in right-wing bodybuilding communities. He advocates araw fooddiet, as well aswhite nationalism. He has promoted conspiracy theories relating toanti-globalism, particularly relating to theGreat Resetinitiative and theGreat Replacement.
Cornish-Dale got his undergraduate history degree from theUniversityof Exeter, before completing his PhD at theLincoln Collegeof theUniversity of Oxfordin 2018. His PhD thesis, titledMigrations of the Holy: The Devotional Culture ofWimborne Minster, c.1400-1640, is on the religious history of aDorsetparish.
In 2024, his real identity was disclosed by the British advocacy groupHope not Hate.
REN's popularity grew from the onlinedissident rightspace beginning in the 2020s.In 2022, he appeared onTucker Carlson's one-hour documentary specialThe End of MenonFox News, as didRFK Jr.His appearance in the documentary sharply increased his popularity.As of January 2025, REN has more than 264,000Xfollowers.His online avatars utilize photos of American bodybuilderVince Gironda, with whom he shares a belief inraw eggsas a "superfood", hence his pseudonym.In 2022, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) called him "a key thinker" in bothFrogtwitterand the online Right Wing Bodybuilder community,while political scientist Josh Vandiver said his work represented "the body politic conceived in virile as well as racial terms".He is an associate ofBronze Age Pervert(BAP); both share concern aboutxenoestrogensand their potential impact on the male body.Vandiver criticized REN's position on this, arguing REN's actual concern was less about the health of the average man, instead being focused on "superlative male flourishing".On his X, he has quotedMein Kampf,has espoused thegreat replacement conspiracy,and has promotedeugenics.
REN promotes bodybuilding, while also promoting racist conspiracy theories and far-right ethnonationalism.The magazineCompactdeemed him "one of the brighter stars in a sprawling constellation of rightwing social-media influencers who exalt nature, tradition, and physical fitness".American magazineVanity Fairnoted him as a "masculinist health guru".He is a prominent and influential figure in the online raw food movement.He promotes a diet ofraw food, includingraw milk,raw honey, as well as the consumption ofanimal fatsandolive oil.He has promoted conspiracy theories relating toanti-globalism,particularly relating to theGreat Resetinitiative.The Great Reset initiative is a green growth initiative by theWorld Economic Forum, aiming to resolve climate change concerns and issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic; the initiative has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories.
The WEF had in 2016 predicted that in 2030 people would eat far less meat, which Great Reset opponents view as evidence of a conspiracy to control the behavior of the populace. REN alleged this was connected to the rise in meat prices due to inflation from 2021 to 2022, which he said served the purpose of "globalists" to stop people from eating meat.He has compared the proscribedvegetarianisminPlato'sRepublicas a tool of social control to the Great Reset's supposed goals for food, to create "a food-dependent, and thus more domesticated, population"; he advocates local consumption of produce,regenerative agriculture, and decentralization of agriculture to fight against the Great Reset.He praised the success of Trump's 2024 presidential campaign as indicating a surge in "testosterone politics". DuringRFK Jr.'s nomination forUnited States Secretary of Health and Human Services, REN indicated his support for the nomination. He has argued that it is "compassionate" to question whethertransgenderstatus may be influenced byendocrine disruptors.
Vice President of the United StatesJD Vancefollows him onX.
REN is the editor of the far-right men's magazineMan's World,which was launched during theCOVID-19 pandemic.The magazine was online-only until a physical edition began to be published byPassage Press.The magazine is aimed to appeal to young white men, with its chief concern being "the decline of national manhood in America and Europe under a barrage of nefarious forces", resulting in what it calls a "clown world". Topics covered include political theory and history, as well as diet and fitness advice.Issues include archaic language, appeals to history, and references to "golden age" bodybuilders, in a joking tone. They also include both real and fake advertisements, "borderline homoerotic fashion and fitness" photography, and fantasy and historical fiction.Nomadic steppe warriors from Central Asia are celebrated within the magazine, declared "the most murderous people of all time" as contrasted with supposedly feminized and sedentary societies, described as the "longhouse".The magazine promotespseudoscientifichealth advice.Scott Burnett called Man's World and REN "a paradigm case of how masculinity is being articulated at the heart of rightwing politics", with some content in the magazine being "fascist, sometimes bordering on neo-Nazi", but utilizing "an ironic gauze".
The magazine maligns "degeneracy", as embodied by the idea of the "coomer" (awojakmeme of a man who is addicted to masturbation), with the magazine criticizing masturbation.InMan's WorldIssue 1, REN included vintagecenterfoldsof nude women. He apologized for this in the next issue's editorial, saying that he had intended to "evoke a time before the advent of readily available internet pornography", but that evensoftcore pornographywas "the thin end of the wedge [...] for the ubiquitous filth that is doing such harm to the minds and bodies of men, women and children everywhere".The accelerationist novellasHarassment Architectureand its sequelGothic Violence, authored by Mike Ma, were advertised in the magazine.REN has claimed the publication's circulation to be over 150,000 copies, though this may be an exaggeration.
TheRaw Egg Trilogyis made up of three self-published books, all published in 2020:Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice,Three Lives of Golden Age Bodybuilders, andDraw Me a Gironda.
In 2022, white nationalist publisherAntelope Hill Publishingpublished his bookThe Eggs Benedict Option,about "the globalist plan for food."It, for a time, ranked highly on Amazon's Agricultural and Food Policy sales list. Its foreword was written by Noor Bin Laden, and the book is named afterRod Dreher's 2017 bookThe Benedict Option.The Eggs Benedict Optionis mostly about nutrition and agriculture, but also mixes this withwhite nationalism. It argues for humanity to stop supporting the modern food system, which REN argues is run by the "enemies of human freedom", who "want you to be fat, sick, depressed, and isolated, the better to control you". He argues for more responsible farming practices and criticizes companies like Monsanto, as well as the practices ofmonocultureand industrialfactory farming, calling the latter "an abomination".
Political scientist Josh Vandiver called it a "manifesto-cum-cookbook for surviving modern life."American progressive magazineMother JonescriticizedThe Eggs Benedict Option, saying it had "half-baked and incoherent solutions you'd expect from a right-wing populist—often stumbling into paranoia along the way", and said it read like "Tucker Carlson tried to writeThe Omnivore's Dilemma".They also said that it "could be mistaken at times for a hippie manifesto", that stitched together "legitimate gripes" about the nutrition ecosystem with "fearmongering about government meat confiscation and calls to white nationalism".
Raw Egg Nationalismwas also published by Antelope Hill Publishing in 2022. The book describes its eponymous ideology as "a physical and political ethic built around the massive consumption of raw eggs", what it calls "one of the most perfect natural foods in existence". This is in resistance to "forces [...] that are leading the anti-human political crusade that seeks to crush the human spirit and destroy the nations, all in the name of profit and global political control." It advocates a diet of "slonking" (gulping down whole) 36 raw eggs a day, as allegedly practiced by Vince Gironda.