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A narrow victory over political correctness : Comments

By Russell Grenning, published 20/12/2017

The Greens and their Socialist allies believe that people are far too stupid to decide for themselves what they might eat.

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Yep, and now they're trying to prevent the rise of the neo-medieval christian superstate in central Europe that everyone's so excited about. Why can't they leave people alone.
Posted by progressive pat, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 8:41:52 AM
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Bah humbug, bird's fur and horse feathers.

Look around and every day we see folk/numbskulls that must be protected from their rank stupidity, which hardly ever is, only confined to self harm!

Be it the sucker welded onto the end of a noxious fag, the waddler with a bagful of sugary drinks on one arm and salt laden garbage on the other. The pokie addict spinning away his family's only home, or the habitual drunk pissing it against a wall! Or an ice addict going off his or her brain and attacking folk trying to help.

For far too long, we have sat silent as the hedonists just ignored the greater good in favour of a cheap thrill or the latest feel good fad! [Aunty, the smoke is getting right in my face and I'm an asthma sufferer! Well move your face moron.]

People who regularly ,critique the nanny state, are all to often supported by it, along with seemingly extravagant lifestyles?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:21:18 AM
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When are posters going to get sick of referring to an old sit-com that, like the old 'Carry On' movies, would not even raise a smile these days. Readers are certainly sick of reading about it. There is no reason to compare the modern, corrupt, incompetent politics with comedy.

The EU is certainly no comedy. The UE's aim was never to represent the peoples of Europe, but to constrain popular sovereignty and democracy. The European Union is not Europe. It is anti-an democratic union of Europe's elites.

We Australians should be very glad that we were spared the lunatic Rudd's desire to set up something similar to the EU between us and Asia.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 11:12:33 AM
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Graham Richardson resorted to political correctness in today's Oz by calling for a tax on sugar to beat obesity, on the grounds that several jurisdictions including the UK have done so, but did not produce any stats to prove the effectiveness of the tax.

Common sense would suggest that, instead of slugging a tax on everyone, the effective solution is to promote cutting back on the amount of all foods eaten, not just sugar.

And NSW residents recently have suffered a loss over political correctness, namely, the Berejiklian government introduction of the drink-container deposit scheme, a totally unwarranted and inconvenient scheme, given the highly efficient container recycling scheme that has been operated by local councils for over 20 years.
Sadly, Gladys naively took up the politically-correct baton of the undemocratic Michael Baird, who was conned by the 'clean-up Australia' mob to introduce such a scheme
Posted by Raycom, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 2:51:59 PM
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Raycom,

The new system is working for some people, yesterday at the local collection point there was a young couple with a trailer behind their car, happily feeding bottles etc., into the "Money Dispenser" from four old 44-gallon drums on said trailer.
Sure beats collecting cans for the scrap metal value!
Posted by Is Mise, Thursday, 21 December 2017 9:05:21 AM
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Had a Donor Kebab once. Never had another.
Posted by Jayb, Thursday, 21 December 2017 3:56:01 PM
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Assuming it is the same person if you do a search on the name Russell Grenning some very interesting things are revealed about his back ground.

But where do most normal people who stay "faithfully" tuned to their TV sets get their "information" about what foods they should eat?

Mostly from TV advertising and the advertising in popular consumerist promoting magazines such as the Women's Weekly etc.
With rare exceptions most of the foods thus advertised are highly processed, loaded with sugar. And all kinds of additives and preservatives, none of which are conducive to long term good health.

Put in another way most of the highly processed foods including most dairy products are packages of toxic chemicals.

Children also learn about their food preferences from their parents. Such early preferences and habits usually have life long consequences, including the diseases that they will develop later on in life.

In his book The Future of Food Michael Pollan quite rightly advises that noone should eat anything that their grand parents would not recognize as food. He, and others too, quite rightly recommend that a useful guideline to the nutritional qualities of any packaged and processed foods are the number of items listed on the table of contents - the more items the worse the "food".

Re my paragraph on children. What are children whose parents ONLY consume junk "foods" being taught, and set up for in their later life, including their formative teenage years.

That having been said why not do a search on the topic Food As Medicine?
This topic is not new. Years ago Henry Bieler wrote a very informative book on the topic.
Highly processed "foods" full of sugar and toxic chemicals are the very antithesis of food as medicine.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 21 December 2017 4:43:59 PM
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People are far too stupid to decide on ALL things in life. The so called educated ones are more stupid than the, let's call them, The Blue Collar Workers. Whilst all you've ever needed to succeed scholastically is a good memory (eg; Rhodes Scholar), the rest rely on what abilities they have naturally. In any event spending too much time on non domestic issues has resulted in a total ignorance on the subject of food. I think PC has a lot more to answer to in life than food. I'm actually not sure how PC is relevant to food and eating habits.
Posted by ALTRAV, Sunday, 24 December 2017 6:56:14 AM
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