How to Avoid Labelled Food

Labelling of food - difficult to read, won’t tell all the truth and you can do better.

Labelled food is for the most part already cooked and containing preservatives and constitutes about 80% of the goods in the store

- this is from most cereals to what is tinned and prepacked - vegetables - fruit - meats - dairy/sweets - so you have no control over how it is cooked and what is in it that shouldn’t be there.

How to avoid:

  don’t buy labelled food!

  buy fresh and cook at home!

Problem solved!

Chewing Gum and Pavements

Used chewing gum has spoiled and  is spoiling our pavements and many other walking areas and it is happening across most of the world. In the UK It costs £1. 50 to remove one such offending mark. Singapore forbids the purchase and import  of chewing gum and imposes  fines of up to $700 dollars ( £400) for spitting it out on a pavement.http://bit.ly/2cW1axe

Public awareness of six gross side effects of gum might influence consumption favourably for some http://bit.ly/1m2pfgU but probably not the disposal problem for most..

The annual bill of  £60 million to clean our streets of discarded chewing gum http://bit.ly/2nXyV1o                               should be borne by the gum manufacturers, one of which makes well over £200 million annually    http://bit.ly/2odW54c. However ideal it is unlikely to come to pass.

I believe the proper approach by the Government in the first place is to force manufacturers to package all chewing gum with an acceptable means of the discarding or disposing of it. This could be small booklet of papers or the packaging itself to contain the discarded gum. Once wrapped the gum can be cleanly pocketed or otherwise disposed of. Even on a pavement, once ‘wrapped’ it will not stick!  

Have it as a trial along with well publicized warning warning that failure of this to work will invoke serious fines or even abolition of gum for sale.  

The problem has been around for 169 years; let’s stop it now ! http://bit.ly/2oPtd5G

The Desperate Need For Undermining Big Foodie.

Chefs and all those who show their food skill in the media would do well to have new mores about what they recommend.
It used to be said of Normandy and Brittany too but to a lesser extent how can food fail there when their is so much fabulous dairy and great fish from the sea in the hands of French flair.
Well of course it never did fail being just great.
But like those counties of France we across the western world have fabulous food sources at hand and we fail.
Well we need to rethink food so that it precludes what is unhealthy both in substance and in preparation and yet allows itself to be yearned for.
But here lies the problem; the public in general cannot disentangle itself from what it has known in the past and what the eternal drumming into our consciousness what advertising is letting Big Foodie impress us with.
We need to be able to justly rubbish food companies whose produce is unhealthy with impunity. An American company is selling biscuits for breakfast under a label suggesting a real healthy food when indeed they are convenience pap -  the rub is the price which is breathtaking - but a bit like a popular cereal maker.
The supermarkets generate interest in the product by half price offerings - still at painful prices and then put the price back and wait for those who have taken the bait.
Till a construct or algorithm is generated which will keep exposure of Big Foodie from taking it opponents to court we need thousands of volunteers who will go into super markets and where rubbish food are on sale surreptitiously stick on the shelf edge an appropriate label warning would be buyers.
Any ideas how to get this idea into a wide spread practice would be welcome. Perhaps the popularising of a blog listing those products could be a start!