Restaurants, cafes and pubs could be forced to list the calories in every item on their menu under Government plans to tackle obesity*.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley wants the public to be made aware of exactly what they are eating in the hope that they will chose healthier dishes.
Presumably that will turn into an “or else” [...]
Posts under ‘Food’
Food Fascism
Oh the hubris!
J I Rodale was pretty much the founding father of the organic food movement.
Rodale had an interest in promoting a healthy and active lifestyle that emphasized organically grown foods, inspired by his encounter with the ideas of Albert Howard.
He founded Rodale, Inc. in 1930 in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. He was the founder of Rodale Press [...]
Five-a-Payday
It is one of the most successful indoctrinations in modern Britain, filtering into every aspect of public life.
I start my day on a bus decorated with the injunction to eat five-a-day, I drop my son off at a nursery where he learns to count using the Government’s five-a-day fruit and vegetable quota, and at the [...]
Pineapple Rings
My wife introduced me to a new and strange sensation this morning. It involved pineapple rings.
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Right, now that the tittering at the back has ceased let me carry on…
Last night I had gammon with rings of the piney apple and very nice it was too. Thing is I had two rings from the tin and [...]
The VAT Man Cometh…
… and take awayeth. There are munterings about VAT being applied to food.
A Treasury spokesman said that there was “absolutely no question” of the current Chancellor imposing VAT on groceries.
“It is not remotely on the table,” he said.
A perhaps unfortunate choice of phrasing. But do you even remotely trust a Treasury spokesman?
However civil [...]
Feminism Contra Greenism
I’ve recently been down London way for a couple of days and clearly they put something in the water down there because hot on the heels of me agreeing whole-heartedly with professional bed-distresser Tracey Emin I shall now agree with a French Philosopher…
Elisabeth Badinter, a 65-year-old philosophy professor and prominent French feminist, has caused a [...]
Hard Hearted Mummies
Apparently, the ancient Egyptians had heart disease. This is reported as if it was a surprise. But apparently, this bit of history was missed during the last major edit, and failed to vanish down the memory hole.
The researchers said that while ancient Egyptians did not smoke tobacco, eat processed food or lead sedentary lives, they [...]
This is the way Worlds end…
… not with a bang but with a cow fart.
Just read the whole thing. It is beyond the fiskable. And riddle me this? Why, after reading that piece do I have the image of a basted former senator from Tennessee rotating on a spit with an apple in his mouth and a bouquet garni up [...]
Dog Food
This one takes the biscuit. And it ain’t a Hob Nob - more of a Bonio…
The Greens now want you to eat your pets to assuage the wrath of Gaia.
The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.
What is it again that [...]
Biodynamic Gardening
Last week, eight of us spent a morning filling a 3ft-deep, brick-lined hole in my garden with fresh cow manure. We treated it with seven specially fermented compost preparations and covered it with a wet sack and a wooden board to keep the weather out.
The fun must never end round that gaff!
This is biodynamic gardening [...]
Green Revolution
My co-blogger recently posted on the sad death of Norman Borlaug. With the greatest respect to Cats I think Penn and Teller do it better. There is some strong language though for me nowhere near strong enough to describe the willfully pig-ignorant solipsistic cuntishness of the Greens who wish to sentence the third world to [...]
The greatest man you have never heard of
Pol Pot – killed a third of his countrymen.
Stalin – killed thirty million people.
Mao Tse Tung – killed seventy million people.
You have all heard of these men. They are famous, and to some people, even today, they are heroes.
What about Norman Borlaug? Who? His name is unknown to you? For shame.
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, [...]
Don’t Spamalot!
A ham sandwhich could kill you…
Parents have been urged not to put ham and other processed meat into their children’s lunchboxes to avoid them developing a cancer risk later in life.
The World Cancer Research Fund said parents should act now to stop their children developing a taste for smoked, salted or cured meats.
I’d like to [...]
The Progressive Commandments
One of the blogosphere’s finest bloggers Dick Puddlecote thought a comment I made over at Letters From A Tory worthy of repeating, so I thought I’d repeat it here too…
The Progressive Commandments
Thou shalt not imbibe of intoxicating liquor, nor of intoxicants of any kind, nor of any thing which maketh thee a bit giggly nor [...]
