the junk food jihad

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War On Terror, War On Drugs, Jihad Against Junk Food

by Ian R Thorpe

Governments and their friends who make up the academic elite seem to be

very keen to go to war these days - especially against we, the people, who elected

them. We have had the war on smoking, the war on carbon dioxide, the war on anti

social behaviour and the war on drugs. The war on alcohol is in full swing, now theyare talking about a war on obesity.

Get yer gnashers round that


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And what is the purpose of these wars? An excuse to raise taxes of course. A fat

tax is one of the proposals being considered.

The Thought Police are relentless in their witch hunts against smoking, alcohol

and now junk food and obesity as they drive forward their campaign to turn us all

into needy, pathetically dependent, infantile conformists. Having virtually demonised

tobacco and made progress along the same prohibitionist road towards making

alcohol such a social evil those who insist on having a drink will meekly accept the

kind of punitive taxes imposed on smokers who refuse to give up their pleasure they

are now turning their attention to "junk food".

When you hear the words junk food, what image comes to mind? I bet its

greasy hamburgers and chips, maybe fried chicken, pizza, gloopy pink milk shakes,

bumper bags of salty crisps, king-size bars of chocolate. All those things identified as

being full of fat and sugar in fact. Why do we not also think of Porc Calvados served

with Dauphinoise potatoes and choux fleur (cauliflower) with bechamel sauce, which

is easily as fatty as any similar sized portion of burger and fries, pizza or fish and

chips. Why do we not consider that great delicacy so beloved of gourmets, pate de

foie gras as junk food. Fois Gras is French for fat liver. Why do we not recoil in

horror from fancy chocolate desserts served in expensive restaurants the way we are

told we should shun Mars Bars for their sugar content and calorie count?

What is it that makes junk food so

disgusting to so many people who think

they have "more refined taste."

Snobbery, that's what. Junk food is

not actually a proper scientific term

designed to measure a foodstuffs dodgy,

synthesised or highly processed content,

it is the descriptor used when someone

wants to express their disdain for the

eating habits of people they consider to be of a lower class, the underclass. Junk food

is eaten by all those check shirt wearing, six pack chugging, trailer park dwelling

Gourmet chocolate desserts, healthier than

ice cream


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Americans and their British binge drinking, chain smoking, sink estate domiciled

counterparts, who have made a career out of claiming social security benefits.

As my birthday treat my family took me to a favourite Italian restaurant last night

(and as an extra special treat I was allowed to pay - ell it's the thought that counts.)We ate well, stuffed mushrooms, Gamberttini (garlic shrimps) and Minestrone for

starters, two Lasagne, Chicken Cacciatore, Canelloni and Bass in a tomato sauce as

main courses. No desserts and two of the starters were split between two people, the

portions are not small. A side order of garlic pizza bread. We were all stuffed when

we left. The fats and salt in those dishes is no less fattening or blood pressure raising

than in a Big Mac and fries so where does the disapproval of people who enjoy what

they can afford come from.

The reason for writing this is once again as the

stories below sensational headlines are telling us

there will be an intergovernmental war on junk

food, as an as a supranational group of interfering

busybodies from the self appointed academic eliteexperts warn of a growing obesity epidemic, the

official busybodies are gunning for the poor. And

once again the news reports of an obesity epidemic are accompanied, not by photos

of grinning middle-class folk like my family tucking into rich, tasty dishes in a

swanky restaurant, but by photos of lardy working class men in ill fitting jeans, and

women with muffin tops hanging over too tight leggings, licking ice-cream cones,

wolfing down huge pizzas or burgers or slurping industrial quantities of milk shake.

Junk food is code word for stuff eaten by them, the lowlifes. The food we the

educated and affluent eat is fine. At a time when it is no longer PC to use either of the

s-words to describe the lower orders scum or slackers the snobs of the new

elite are forced to find other ways to demean those they consider beneath contempt,

the undeserving poor, the masses, proles, the great unwashed, to express their fear

and loathing of the strange semi housetrained sub species that inhabits municipal

housing estates and inner cities.

Porc Calvados, cream and

apple brandy sauce
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In a report titled War On Obesity which predicts half of Britons will be obese by

2030, Professor Klim McPherson, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, said the

government needs to learn the lesson of tobacco taxation, which has dramatically

reduced smoking rates.

"A tax wouldn't be unpopular if people knew what the issues are," the Professor

told television news crews. "People know obesity is a real problem. People don't

know, as individuals, what to do about it. Governments do know what to do about it

and if they could persuade people, as they easily could, it would be a popular action."

The Professor is talking out of the hole in his or her bottom in saying

governments know what do about it because governments haven't a clue what to do

about climate change, overpopulation, the debt crisis, food shortages, dwindling oil

reserves, the problems of an ageing population and so on ad nauseam. It is ridiculous

to suggest governments know what to do about anything. And they are never likely to

if they listen to the advice of people like Prof. McPherson. To suggest taxation has

reduced smoking is just so wrong in so many ways one wonders what kind of

qualifications it takes to become a professor these days. A single figure IQ for a startI'd guess.

Taxation has not reduced smoking,

taxation has forced smoking underground.

Because smoking is so vilified and

because taxes are so high it makes

contraband smoking products attractive tosmall time criminals, when official

surveys are conducted people just lie. One

independent study estimated that for every

cigarette sold legally in Britain another

contraband ciggy is sold, most by shifty looking guys in pubs who keep their retail

stock in a sports bag. And then there is the boom in hand rolling that took off aroundthe time the self righteous, moralising do gooders, the anti pleasure campaign and the

Revenue and Customs officers destroying

contraband tobacco. Only a tiny fraction of

the contraband is seized
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we-know-what's-good-for-you fascists takeover of society was gathering momentum

under thepopulist authoritarianism of the Labour government.

The experts also propose restrictions on junk food advertising and initiatives to

warn children not to spend too much time sitting around watching TV. They claim theinitiatives are much more cost-effective than obesity operations and some fat drugs.

What is noticeable about the elitist attitudes of these self appointed 'high heid

yins' (to borrow a self explanatory Scottish expression) is how close to fascism their

assumptions of intellectual and moral superiority are leading them. The science high

priesthood along with the psychologists and social engineering lobbyists of the

political left seem to be saying "If you do not agree with us you obviously are too

stupid to be allowed to think for yourself or exercise free will.

Attacking the advertising and propaganda industry is a road to nowhere however

and is probably just a sop to the few true liberals still active in mainstream media and

politics. Advertising firms buy politicians cooperation with campaign contributions as

do the chemical and food processing corporations.

Thus we see what is going on. After the failure of the carbon driven global

warming scam which was only ever about imposing taxes on our fuel for domestic

heating, cooking, running cars, we now see another attempt by governments to tax

the most basic essentials of life, this time our food. In the UK food has always been

exempt from Value Added Tax (the European sales tax) but here we see creepy, Dr.

Evil type scientists working with self serving unelected bureaucrats to impose food

taxes by stealth under the guise of combating the obesity epidemic. And what kind of

food are the elitists planning to tax? Not my gourmet treats but the kind of things

enjoyed by less well off people (don't get me wrong here, I enjoy a burger, pizza or

fish and chips occasionally, the point is a tax on such things would not hurt me.)

A spokesman for The Department of Health commenting on this latest report said

obesity was one of the governments main priorities. "We are encouraging people to

make simple changes, such as eating more fruit and vegetables, cutting down on fatty

foods and being more active. We have no current plans to impose a 'fat tax', but we
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are working with food companies to reduce fat, sugar and salt and ensure healthier

options are available." We have no current plans is bureaucrat speak for "We have put

it on the agenda for next year."

Every discussion or shock-horror story about junk food is always focused on

working-class communities. From Morgan Spurlocks film Super Size Me, in which

that brave, well-educated New Yorker from the posh Park Slope area of Brooklyn

dared to descend into the poorer areas and living 'like poor people do' on nothing but

McDonalds meals, (the ugly elitism of this project was so blatant - does anyone apart

from smug, self satisfied twats like Spurlock really think poor people live solely on

Burgers and Fries?) to fat tongued, mockney* posh boy Jamie Olivers various self

promoting wars on unhealthy school dinners, never venture beyond poor

communities. They never knock on the doors of five-star restaurants that serve up

deliciously fatty grub or raid the homes of people who scoff fine steaks washed down

with 100 bottles of wine. They will never attack those chefs who cannot make a

sauce without putting in very generous amounts of butter double cream.

The whole point of the nonsense notion of

junk food is to make a moralistic distinction

between what We The Good, Right Thinking

People eat (good, interesting, exotic food,

cosmopolitan food) and what They The Scum

eat: trashy, uninteresting, fast, microwaveable

.Steak fried in butter, served with with

mushrooms in cream sauce - not junk food

Fish and chips - junk food
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crap. My Boeuf Stroganoff, the cream, brandy and mustard sauce made with butter

and double cream is food fit for the elite. When fat boy down at the cheap end of the

road goes for a curry with his mates, though the sauce is made with butter and

coconut milk, it is disgusting junk. Why? Because I talk posher than what he does

and live in a bigger house, that's why.

One story that captures well the unpleasant truth of the anti-junk food campaign

was the time during Jamie Oliver's first school dinners crusade when two mums

pushed portions of chips through the school railings at Rawmarsh School in

Rotherham. They said they were sick of their children coming home from school

hungry, having refused to eat the rabbit food served in the lunch hall under Jamie

Olivers instructions. And so they decided to smuggle in chips for their kids to feast

on instead. The women were depicted as the scum of the earth. They were sinner

ladies, the press said, like day trippers feeding animals at the zoo. All because they

dared to ignore the Gospel According to St Jamie. Now Oliver was labouring under

the misapprehension that because he was a celeb with his own TV show kids would

eat couscous at his bidding.

Having brought up children of our own, my wife

and I could have told him any self respecting child

would eat cold Wombat vomit in preference to

couscous.

The expression of snobbery through the issue of

food has a long history. As John Carey showed inhis bookThe Intellectuals and the Masses, in the

early twentieth-century writers and thinkers who

were allergic to working-class folk frequently

attacked the tinned food consumed by less well-off

people. Tinned food offends against what the intellectual designates as nature: it is

mechanical and soulless, said Carey. The left wing intellectuals saw tinned food asan offence against the sacredness of individuality. And so it is today. For all the

A child's typical response to

salad
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spouting of medical statistics and health facts in the jihad against junk food, really it

is driven by an elitist view of certain types of food as soulless, unnatural, too easy

and too cheap. It is not a matter of taste to these people but a matter of class and class

hatred, cunningly disguised as a health campaign. The very last thing they would

want to see is the working class eating salads, vegetarian pastas, home cooked stews

and casseroles (as many do it must be said,) that would undermine the carefully

constructed sense of superiority these affluent professionals depend on for their self

esteem.

Ironically things have switched and it is now the intellectual left who in an

evangelical frenzy to spread science worship among the masses are now sneering at

those who advocate natural and organic food production methods and in their

enthusiasm for science and Genetically Modified Organisms appear to be suggesting

nature is incompetent and we should not even think about eating anything that has not

been meddled with by scientists, fed antibiotics, sprayed with deadly toxins and

generally optomized not for human consumption (nature does that) but for corporate

profitability and political power games.

It would of course be irresponsible to close without saying this article does not

intend to encourage people to eat badly. A varied diet and moderately sized portions

ought to be enough to keep our digestive system in good shape, stave off obesity and

and keep the waistline under control. Moderation is the key. It's OK to pig out

sometimes but not every day, it's OK to be self indulgent but don't let it become a

habit. A burger is delicious occasionally but do you really want to eat the same every

day? And most of all, never let the prejudices of elitists dictate who you are. But as

far as is practical within your means, go for natural, traditionally grown foods.

*Mockney, a middle or upper class person from South East England who

pretends to be a working class Londoner (Cockney)


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