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"Food manufacturers have attacked Boris Johnson’s proposed anti-obesity measures"

That's good.

It shows they expect them to have some effect.

Like you used to be able to tell if anti-smoking changes were effective, from the fuss the pro-death lobby used to make.

i wonder if macdonalds, burglar king, coke and kfc donate millions to a UK Political party? If so, they might complain they didn't get their money's worth this time.

We hear no such complaints from Russian Multibillionaires.
 
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Well your party could do with a Russian billion aire

As there are more law suits pending (32) over the party's anti semitism report

Perhaps u will dip yer hand in your pocket :LOL:

And help em out :LOL:
 
There are several ingredients loved by food manufacturers:

Water.
This is an incredibly cheap ingredient that can be injected into meat to bulk it out (why sell chicken when you can sell water for the price of chicken?). You are allowed to add up to 10% to meats by weight before having to declare it on the label.
You can also use it in conjunction with cold starches to bulk out things like sauces, mayonnaises etc...

Salt.
Added to all food, but in particularly vast quantities to highly processed foods to enhance flavour.
The saltiness of food can be disguised by the addition of sugar.

Sugar.
Another flavour enhancer, this can also be used in "diet" foods to replace fat content.

Fat.
In the context of meat, a small percentage of fat is needed to give flavour.
Fat and other animal products (skin, bone and connective tissues) are used to increase the meat content of cheap products like sausages and burgers. You may look at the meat content of a product and consider it high, but that percentage is often boosted by the use of low-nutrition animal products.

Rusk.
Extensively used as a filler in cheap meat products, along with soy and wheat proteins.


The thing that all these ingredients have in common are that they are very cheap. Especially so when the product adds to the weight of an expensive ingredient (like water added to meat)
 
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Ihavenojob said:
Why would an advertising ban hurt them ?
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The purpose of advertising is to encourage people to buy your product.

If it didn't work, the vendors wouldn't spend billions of pounds on it.

Children are particularly susceptible.
 
JohnD said:
The purpose of advertising is to encourage people to buy your product.

If it didn't work, the vendors wouldn't spend billions of pounds on it.

Children are particularly susceptible.
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Most understand that, but if adverts were banned, would people, and especially kids, forget those places exist ? They could limit their opening hours, higher business rates on fast food outlets. So what if it puts the price up, it will stop people eating too much.
 
securespark said:
There are several ingredients loved by food manufacturers:

Water.
This is an incredibly cheap ingredient that can be injected into meat to bulk it out (why sell chicken when you can sell water for the price of chicken?). You are allowed to add up to 10% to meats by weight before having to declare it on the label.
You can also use it in conjunction with cold starches to bulk out things like sauces, mayonnaises etc...

Salt.
Added to all food, but in particularly vast quantities to highly processed foods to enhance flavour.
The saltiness of food can be disguised by the addition of sugar.

Sugar.
Another flavour enhancer, this can also be used in "diet" foods to replace fat content.

Fat.
In the context of meat, a small percentage of fat is needed to give flavour.
Fat and other animal products (skin, bone and connective tissues) are used to increase the meat content of cheap products like sausages and burgers. You may look at the meat content of a product and consider it high, but that percentage is often boosted by the use of low-nutrition animal products.

Rusk.
Extensively used as a filler in cheap meat products, along with soy and wheat proteins.


The thing that all these ingredients have in common are that they are very cheap. Especially so when the product adds to the weight of an expensive ingredient (like water added to meat)
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All very true... have you tried heck 98% meat sausages? They're not very nice IMHO.
 
It's virtue signalling. Won't achieve anything. What Bozza won't do, is to force content changes (salt, fat, sugar etc); or tax 'bad' food prohibitively. They might work, but his rich pals won't like him any more, so there is no chance.
 
charliegolf said:
virtue signalling
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A term used to deride people who try to do something worthwhile, for the benefit of others.

Generally used by people who cannot conceive that they would ever do anything for reasons other than personal self interest. It's a term that doesn't make sense to people with any sense of charity or community.

Similar to "do-gooders," a term used to sneer at people who attempt to do something good.

Both terms are popular in the Daily Wail and among their target audience.

E.g. "My cousin collected childrens clothes and toys among his local church, and drove his company van to Romania with some volunteer nurses to try to help the inmates of orphanages"

"Fu**ing do gooder. Just virtue signalling."
 
Address the rest of the post. I actually think addressing obesity is is a vital thing to do. Doing what is of less value than nothing is worth deriding.
 
Salt & sugar are also very cheap preservatives... at least they're natural.

Be interesting to see if the report on the link between obesity and the severity of covid that came out again today has any impact. Apparently a lot more people gave up smoking when this started as it was thought of as a respiratory illness.
 
sodthisforfun said:
Salt & sugar are also very cheap preservatives... at least they're natural.

Be interesting to see if the report on the link between obesity and the severity of covid that came out again today has any impact. Apparently a lot more people gave up smoking when this started as it was thought of as a respiratory illness.
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Apparently, you'd be better off smoking than being obese. Obesity, say researchers, is worse than being a smoker,alcoholic or poor.
 
Ihavenojob said:
They could limit their opening hours, higher business rates on fast food outlets. So what if it puts the price up, it will stop people eating too much.
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Taxes.

Taxes are levied on other products harmful to health, why not junk food?
 
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