panic on a plate

Quality work from the folks at The Onion, taking the piss out of… well, pretentious foodie bullshit.

Those who only eat forego importing food from around the world in favour of locally produced food won’t save the planet, become healthier, revive communities or improve food security.

Since there is much talk about in-vitro meat today, here’s an article from 2009 wot I wrote about that very topic.

This is review is less favourable than some others, but I think it’s worth linking to nonetheless.

On Thursday, high-profile science journal Nature published a commentary by three academics, which argued that sugar is a toxin and that it should be subject to similar kinds of public-health interventions as alcohol. In other words, sugar should be taxed and restricted just like booze.

Jamie Oliver has won an apparent victory by persuading McDonald’s to remove a form of ‘reclaimed meat’ from its burgers. It’s a victory built on ignorant scaremongering.

From vomiting and food abstention to mastication and ‘reducing salons’, Louise Foxcroft’s history of dieting shows that weight-loss regimes have a long, weird and unhealthy history.

Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.

Illiberal Liberal of the Week goes to the Observer‘s Barbara Ellen for this piece, ‘Meat eaters – you are daredevils or dumb. Or both.’ Ellen is not at all sheepish in wanting to take the bovine attitudes of recent governments towards smokers and drinkers and apply them to meat eaters, too. Now that a precedent has been set - that people should be harangued for doing things that are legal but disapproved of by those in high office - Ellen is simply following through this logic by attacking those who like a burger or a kebab.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a pediatric hospital, is spending $25million on some pretty brutal commercials depicting fat children and suggesting that parents are in denial about the problem.