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Originally Posted by Hazel at the Hill  I think that it's an education thing here then, isn't it JT?
If everyone did as you suggest, we would have no cr*p meat for sale as there would be no demand for it, and we'd all have better diets! At least Jamie O seems to have made a start there.
BTW suspect that gment intervention is not the answer - regulation takes away peoples ability to think for themselves a lot of the time - I reckon that we'd all be better off if we decided for ourselves (through education) to do the right/sensible/commonsense things in life rather than being told what we can and cant do all the time (e.g. 'elf & safety).
All IMHO. |
Hazel and other Grapes,
Thanks for your comments. All that follows is IMHO.
As you know I am a teacher, I passionately believe in education, it's my life. However I can't admit that it always works - and it patently isn't working around healthy eating, exercise etc...
People always see eucation as a way out of every social difficulty we face - and in that sense education
is government interference - but it patently isn't working.
I've worked in so called
challenging primaries, i.e. ones with high socio-economic deprivation, and am currently in a fairly well-to-do school in relatively (but not exclusively) well off Beverley. At the moment a lot of children at school eat very healthily, and this I believe is reflected in their general health. Packed lunches are ever more popular as concerned middle-class parents (myself included!) want to opt for organic food, food that my cook
just can't afford to buy. Colleagues in
deprived areas report that children there are ever heavier, less active, less likely to choose fruit over sugar, blah, blah, blah. And that is despite the best efforts of New Labour and the whole state education system, not to mention health promotion, the media and so on. It just isn't working.
Why? It's not because the "plebs" (I didn't appreciate that description BTW pigletwillie!) are genetically stupid, it's because they are poor, they simply cannot afford to eat healthily. And that is why I believe the government should meddle with the market - that or condemn people to a life of food and helath poverty. Believe it or not I do have an allergic reaction to government interference and always stick 2 fingers up at speed cameras, but on this issue I'm convinced it's right to interfere because health and life is at stake.
Sorry - I know I'm labouring the point, and it's way past my bedtime, but please indulge me one one last point.
I spent 6 years living in the most deprived housing estate in the UK. It's called North Bransholme (HU7 if you want to multimap it). If you haven't got a car - and that applied to the majority of people - the only food buying option was a place called KWIK SAVE. I rest my case!
120 miles for a pack of sausages - give me a break (IMHO!)