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Food is for White Liberals What Sex Is For The Religious Right – Rebecca Watson
As I’ve written many times, the public health bureaucracy is a natural haven for little dictators. A full-time identity for professional hall monitors who wake up every morning desperate to control something. Covid was pure heaven for these tinpot troughocrats. Suddenly, they weren’t just the tiny tyrants of their little office empire: entire nations lived and breathed, left their houses and went to the beach, on the passing whim of some public health arsehole who didn’t have the personality to be a real doctor, or the brainpower to be a real scientist, let alone the superficial charm to be a politician.
But the halcyon days of Covid are long past. Indeed, the bully bureaucrats of the public health lobby are more concerned these days with avoiding being held to account for what they did. Meanwhile, they’ve hit on the next big thing to bully and finger-wag us with.
Ultra-processed foods are displacing traditional foods and meals globally, degrading diet quality, and contributing to the rise of diet-related chronic diseases.
And despite the combined advertising spend of the leading ultra-processed food companies dwarfing even the total budget of the World Health Organization, there is plenty that governments, communities and health professionals can do about it.
Aaaaannnnddddd… there it is. The hall monitor mentality at it again. You just know it’s all going to be about control and micromanaging every bite we eat. These are the sort of people, after all, who rifle through kids’ lunchboxes with all the zeal and good humour of an Obergruppenführer ferreting out Jewish ancestry.
Our third paper asks why ultra-processed foods are taking over human diets and how to mobilise a global public health response.
Uh, because people like them? Shut up, pleb: you’re brainwashed.
The answer: address corporate power and profitability […]
For instance, in 2024 leading food companies spent vastly more on advertising than the World Health Organization’s entire operating budget.
Well, considering just how disgracefully the WHO has conducted itself, how is that a bad thing?
Still, at least we have Big Nanny here to treat us like helpless children and brainwash us into slavishly submitting to their idea of utopia, instead.
Governments could set limits on selected additives and use “ultra-processed food markers” such as colours, flavours and non-sugar sweeteners (as well as high levels of sugar, fat and salt) to identify ultra-processed products for regulation.
Govern us harder, nanny.
As always, bureaucratic bullies try to justify their megalomania as ‘protection’.
Protecting children under 18 – especially on digital platforms – from ultra-processed food marketing and extend protections beyond “kids’ hours”
In other words, digital ID and complete censorship.
And no public health bully worth their pink Himalayan rock salt is going to let anything go without a whole lotta new taxes.
Taxing sugary drinks (by at least 20 per cent) and selected ultra-processed foods; use revenue to subsidise fruits, vegetables and freshly prepared meals for lower-income households.
And they really are going to go through your kids’ lunchboxes.
Removing ultra-processed foods from schools, hospitals and other public institutions, limiting the share of ultra-processed foods on supermarket shelves, and curbing availability of ultra-processed foods near schools.
In the words of Rebecca Watson, I want the Religious Right out of my bedroom and the White Liberal Food Police out of my kitchen. Is that so much to ask?
Just shut up and eat your cockroach gruel.
