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War On Terror, War On Drugs, Jihad Against Junk Food
by Ian R Thorpe
Governments and their friends who make up the academic elite seem to be
very keen to go to war these days - especially against we, the people, who elected
them. We have had the war on smoking, the war on carbon dioxide, the war on anti
social behaviour and the war on drugs. The war on alcohol is in full swing, now theyare talking about a war on obesity.
Get yer gnashers round that
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And what is the purpose of these wars? An excuse to raise taxes of course. A fat
tax is one of the proposals being considered.
The Thought Police are relentless in their witch hunts against smoking, alcohol
and now junk food and obesity as they drive forward their campaign to turn us all
into needy, pathetically dependent, infantile conformists. Having virtually demonised
tobacco and made progress along the same prohibitionist road towards making
alcohol such a social evil those who insist on having a drink will meekly accept the
kind of punitive taxes imposed on smokers who refuse to give up their pleasure they
are now turning their attention to "junk food".
When you hear the words junk food, what image comes to mind? I bet its
greasy hamburgers and chips, maybe fried chicken, pizza, gloopy pink milk shakes,
bumper bags of salty crisps, king-size bars of chocolate. All those things identified as
being full of fat and sugar in fact. Why do we not also think of Porc Calvados served
with Dauphinoise potatoes and choux fleur (cauliflower) with bechamel sauce, which
is easily as fatty as any similar sized portion of burger and fries, pizza or fish and
chips. Why do we not consider that great delicacy so beloved of gourmets, pate de
foie gras as junk food. Fois Gras is French for fat liver. Why do we not recoil in
horror from fancy chocolate desserts served in expensive restaurants the way we are
told we should shun Mars Bars for their sugar content and calorie count?
What is it that makes junk food so
disgusting to so many people who think
they have "more refined taste."
Snobbery, that's what. Junk food is
not actually a proper scientific term
designed to measure a foodstuffs dodgy,
synthesised or highly processed content,
it is the descriptor used when someone
wants to express their disdain for the
eating habits of people they consider to be of a lower class, the underclass. Junk food
is eaten by all those check shirt wearing, six pack chugging, trailer park dwelling
Gourmet chocolate desserts, healthier than
ice cream
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Americans and their British binge drinking, chain smoking, sink estate domiciled
counterparts, who have made a career out of claiming social security benefits.
As my birthday treat my family took me to a favourite Italian restaurant last night
(and as an extra special treat I was allowed to pay - ell it's the thought that counts.)We ate well, stuffed mushrooms, Gamberttini (garlic shrimps) and Minestrone for
starters, two Lasagne, Chicken Cacciatore, Canelloni and Bass in a tomato sauce as
main courses. No desserts and two of the starters were split between two people, the
portions are not small. A side order of garlic pizza bread. We were all stuffed when
we left. The fats and salt in those dishes is no less fattening or blood pressure raising
than in a Big Mac and fries so where does the disapproval of people who enjoy what
they can afford come from.
The reason for writing this is once again as the
stories below sensational headlines are telling us
there will be an intergovernmental war on junk
food, as an as a supranational group of interfering
busybodies from the self appointed academic eliteexperts warn of a growing obesity epidemic, the
official busybodies are gunning for the poor. And
once again the news reports of an obesity epidemic are accompanied, not by photos
of grinning middle-class folk like my family tucking into rich, tasty dishes in a
swanky restaurant, but by photos of lardy working class men in ill fitting jeans, and
women with muffin tops hanging over too tight leggings, licking ice-cream cones,
wolfing down huge pizzas or burgers or slurping industrial quantities of milk shake.
Junk food is code word for stuff eaten by them, the lowlifes. The food we the
educated and affluent eat is fine. At a time when it is no longer PC to use either of the
s-words to describe the lower orders scum or slackers the snobs of the new
elite are forced to find other ways to demean those they consider beneath contempt,
the undeserving poor, the masses, proles, the great unwashed, to express their fear
and loathing of the strange semi housetrained sub species that inhabits municipal
housing estates and inner cities.
Porc Calvados, cream and
apple brandy sauce
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In a report titled War On Obesity which predicts half of Britons will be obese by
2030, Professor Klim McPherson, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, said the
government needs to learn the lesson of tobacco taxation, which has dramatically
reduced smoking rates.
"A tax wouldn't be unpopular if people knew what the issues are," the Professor
told television news crews. "People know obesity is a real problem. People don't
know, as individuals, what to do about it. Governments do know what to do about it
and if they could persuade people, as they easily could, it would be a popular action."
The Professor is talking out of the hole in his or her bottom in saying
governments know what do about it because governments haven't a clue what to do
about climate change, overpopulation, the debt crisis, food shortages, dwindling oil
reserves, the problems of an ageing population and so on ad nauseam. It is ridiculous
to suggest governments know what to do about anything. And they are never likely to
if they listen to the advice of people like Prof. McPherson. To suggest taxation has
reduced smoking is just so wrong in so many ways one wonders what kind of
qualifications it takes to become a professor these days. A single figure IQ for a startI'd guess.
Taxation has not reduced smoking,
taxation has forced smoking underground.
Because smoking is so vilified and
because taxes are so high it makes
contraband smoking products attractive tosmall time criminals, when official
surveys are conducted people just lie. One
independent study estimated that for every
cigarette sold legally in Britain another
contraband ciggy is sold, most by shifty looking guys in pubs who keep their retail
stock in a sports bag. And then there is the boom in hand rolling that took off aroundthe time the self righteous, moralising do gooders, the anti pleasure campaign and the
Revenue and Customs officers destroying
contraband tobacco. Only a tiny fraction of
the contraband is seized
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we-know-what's-good-for-you fascists takeover of society was gathering momentum
under thepopulist authoritarianism of the Labour government.
The experts also propose restrictions on junk food advertising and initiatives to
warn children not to spend too much time sitting around watching TV. They claim theinitiatives are much more cost-effective than obesity operations and some fat drugs.
What is noticeable about the elitist attitudes of these self appointed 'high heid
yins' (to borrow a self explanatory Scottish expression) is how close to fascism their
assumptions of intellectual and moral superiority are leading them. The science high
priesthood along with the psychologists and social engineering lobbyists of the
political left seem to be saying "If you do not agree with us you obviously are too
stupid to be allowed to think for yourself or exercise free will.
Attacking the advertising and propaganda industry is a road to nowhere however
and is probably just a sop to the few true liberals still active in mainstream media and
politics. Advertising firms buy politicians cooperation with campaign contributions as
do the chemical and food processing corporations.
Thus we see what is going on. After the failure of the carbon driven global
warming scam which was only ever about imposing taxes on our fuel for domestic
heating, cooking, running cars, we now see another attempt by governments to tax
the most basic essentials of life, this time our food. In the UK food has always been
exempt from Value Added Tax (the European sales tax) but here we see creepy, Dr.
Evil type scientists working with self serving unelected bureaucrats to impose food
taxes by stealth under the guise of combating the obesity epidemic. And what kind of
food are the elitists planning to tax? Not my gourmet treats but the kind of things
enjoyed by less well off people (don't get me wrong here, I enjoy a burger, pizza or
fish and chips occasionally, the point is a tax on such things would not hurt me.)
A spokesman for The Department of Health commenting on this latest report said
obesity was one of the governments main priorities. "We are encouraging people to
make simple changes, such as eating more fruit and vegetables, cutting down on fatty
foods and being more active. We have no current plans to impose a 'fat tax', but we
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are working with food companies to reduce fat, sugar and salt and ensure healthier
options are available." We have no current plans is bureaucrat speak for "We have put
it on the agenda for next year."
Every discussion or shock-horror story about junk food is always focused on
working-class communities. From Morgan Spurlocks film Super Size Me, in which
that brave, well-educated New Yorker from the posh Park Slope area of Brooklyn
dared to descend into the poorer areas and living 'like poor people do' on nothing but
McDonalds meals, (the ugly elitism of this project was so blatant - does anyone apart
from smug, self satisfied twats like Spurlock really think poor people live solely on
Burgers and Fries?) to fat tongued, mockney* posh boy Jamie Olivers various self
promoting wars on unhealthy school dinners, never venture beyond poor
communities. They never knock on the doors of five-star restaurants that serve up
deliciously fatty grub or raid the homes of people who scoff fine steaks washed down
with 100 bottles of wine. They will never attack those chefs who cannot make a
sauce without putting in very generous amounts of butter double cream.
The whole point of the nonsense notion of
junk food is to make a moralistic distinction
between what We The Good, Right Thinking
People eat (good, interesting, exotic food,
cosmopolitan food) and what They The Scum
eat: trashy, uninteresting, fast, microwaveable
.Steak fried in butter, served with with
mushrooms in cream sauce - not junk food
Fish and chips - junk food
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crap. My Boeuf Stroganoff, the cream, brandy and mustard sauce made with butter
and double cream is food fit for the elite. When fat boy down at the cheap end of the
road goes for a curry with his mates, though the sauce is made with butter and
coconut milk, it is disgusting junk. Why? Because I talk posher than what he does
and live in a bigger house, that's why.
One story that captures well the unpleasant truth of the anti-junk food campaign
was the time during Jamie Oliver's first school dinners crusade when two mums
pushed portions of chips through the school railings at Rawmarsh School in
Rotherham. They said they were sick of their children coming home from school
hungry, having refused to eat the rabbit food served in the lunch hall under Jamie
Olivers instructions. And so they decided to smuggle in chips for their kids to feast
on instead. The women were depicted as the scum of the earth. They were sinner
ladies, the press said, like day trippers feeding animals at the zoo. All because they
dared to ignore the Gospel According to St Jamie. Now Oliver was labouring under
the misapprehension that because he was a celeb with his own TV show kids would
eat couscous at his bidding.
Having brought up children of our own, my wife
and I could have told him any self respecting child
would eat cold Wombat vomit in preference to
couscous.
The expression of snobbery through the issue of
food has a long history. As John Carey showed inhis bookThe Intellectuals and the Masses, in the
early twentieth-century writers and thinkers who
were allergic to working-class folk frequently
attacked the tinned food consumed by less well-off
people. Tinned food offends against what the intellectual designates as nature: it is
mechanical and soulless, said Carey. The left wing intellectuals saw tinned food asan offence against the sacredness of individuality. And so it is today. For all the
A child's typical response to
salad
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spouting of medical statistics and health facts in the jihad against junk food, really it
is driven by an elitist view of certain types of food as soulless, unnatural, too easy
and too cheap. It is not a matter of taste to these people but a matter of class and class
hatred, cunningly disguised as a health campaign. The very last thing they would
want to see is the working class eating salads, vegetarian pastas, home cooked stews
and casseroles (as many do it must be said,) that would undermine the carefully
constructed sense of superiority these affluent professionals depend on for their self
esteem.
Ironically things have switched and it is now the intellectual left who in an
evangelical frenzy to spread science worship among the masses are now sneering at
those who advocate natural and organic food production methods and in their
enthusiasm for science and Genetically Modified Organisms appear to be suggesting
nature is incompetent and we should not even think about eating anything that has not
been meddled with by scientists, fed antibiotics, sprayed with deadly toxins and
generally optomized not for human consumption (nature does that) but for corporate
profitability and political power games.
It would of course be irresponsible to close without saying this article does not
intend to encourage people to eat badly. A varied diet and moderately sized portions
ought to be enough to keep our digestive system in good shape, stave off obesity and
and keep the waistline under control. Moderation is the key. It's OK to pig out
sometimes but not every day, it's OK to be self indulgent but don't let it become a
habit. A burger is delicious occasionally but do you really want to eat the same every
day? And most of all, never let the prejudices of elitists dictate who you are. But as
far as is practical within your means, go for natural, traditionally grown foods.
*Mockney, a middle or upper class person from South East England who
pretends to be a working class Londoner (Cockney)
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