Gordon Brown Declares War On Food
“BRITAIN declares war on food waste,” announces the Independent.
How do you fight yesterday’s tuna casserole? If you imprison food, it will only turn nasty and attack you by biological means. Perhaps the old ways of sticking the wrongdoer in the stocks and pelting it with rotten fruit would work, or only exacerbate the problem?
Reading on, we learn that: “The Government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain’s waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb spiralling food prices.”
Food prices are not going up because of increased production and energy costs, but because you are not cleaning your plate.
Says Gordon Brown ( “If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?” - Pink Floyd: No Education; No Education; No Education):
“If we are to get food prices down, we must do more to deal with unnecessary demand, such as by all of us doing more to cut our food waste which is costing the average household in Britain around £8 per week.”
It’s your fault that you’re spending more on food. Just as it is your fault that petrol prices are up because you insist on traveling at something other than the most fuel efficient speed.
A new Government ruling states that mums on school run must drive at 56mph. This will reduce fuel bills. It is nothing short of common sense.
For added efficiency try eating your car, anorexia and standing still, laddie…
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Food & Fat, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
The food problem can be easily balanced if we look to The MAJOR culprits.
Not the average household but the large chain supermarkets and Hotel and Catering Industry.
If you had any idea how much good food is wasted every day in these industries, you would truly understand that they are THE main problem.
I know firsthand as a Pastry Chef and I’ve seen perfectly good food go to waste in many high class establishments.
The homeless could easily enjoy a banquet fit for a KING!
As for fuel who is the greater culprit the humble land vehicles or the Airline Industry?
Not to mention the extreme waste of fuel on scheduled flights with NO passengers!
Let’s not listen to the government until they put the FACTS into PERSPECTIVE!
Time for us to stop taking the guilt of screwed up polices on our shoulders.
Be Informed, Be Empowered!
P.S.
Don’t even get me started on the farming policy caused by government policy!
This is just the tip of the iceberg!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
ooops telegraph link caught in spam?
never mind, story about GB’s 6 course lunch and 8 course dinner at the G8
methinks just another porker with snout in the trough
M and a
Cheer up, it caught 3 I put through this a.m , I’ll go and look
Now about the Rennies..
July 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Hope link works…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/2262534/G8-summit-Gordon-Brown-has-eight-course-dinner-before-food-crisis-talks.html
July 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Melanie - indeed. The farming policy is fucked. So Brown blames…the eater. Genius…
July 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
yampster
as long as its fresh cream…
July 7th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Bulimia to be made a criminal offence!
From now on it will be compulsary to have your cake and eat it, or else
July 7th, 2008 at 11:10 am
don’t throw it away it more! Get fat be a drain on the NHS, keep nurses employed so they can aford to keep buying food!
I find it a tad annoying that a government that is part of a policy of creating food mountains to keep prices high to pay farmers is now worried about e throwing away some food. Food that I cant get round to eating due to the need to work longer to pay for ir in the first place.
This is a can of worms they have opened. I do so hope the press will feast on them and not let any go to waste…
July 7th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Moorre?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
“..such as by all of us doing more to cut our food waste which is costing the average household in Britain around £8 per week.”
So I should eat more…