How about instead of punishing “the poor” with new taxes we just made healthy food cheaper.
How about actually giving people the time to actually prepare a healthy meal.
No one wants to spend 30mins to an hour cooking a good meal when they only get 4 hours of time to themselves a day. Reduce everyone’s working hours and make them actually want to live a healthy life rather than treating them like consumables to be used up by businesses and replaced with their offspring.
This is exactly the kind of thing is expect from someone so far removed from the day to day reality of normal people.
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If they’re all very fat, won’t that be better for basting?
What if, instead of perpetuating the narrative of diet culture and “healthy food” vs. “junk food”, we worked harder to provide food for those who actually need food. What if, and hear me out here, we educated people on making healthy decisions and more importantly, maintaining a healthy, positive relationship with food and their bodies?
Isn’t healthier eating more about convenience than education or anything else. If it’s easier for people to eat healthy compared to eating unhealthy, they’ll take that up.
Path of least resistance and all that
That’s a good point, I hadn’t considered that! Have a lovely day.
Meal prep then, cook a big meal or two on Sunday and eat them though the week.
There’s so much that’s less than ideal about this. A lot of people don’t have a big freezer. Some can’t afford to pay for bulk ingredients up front. Some people won’t have a half day spare to spend it cooking, especially if they have kids. And then there’s the depressing aspect of eating the same food everyday.
I’m lucky I enjoy cooking so don’t mind it taking up my evenings (nor do I have kids or a small freezer or work full time on minimum wage) but even I balk at the thought of meal prepping.
2 meals for 5 days is pretty boring also, it takes a significant amount of time of my Sunday to batch cook. Preparing the meals, cooking, cooling, portioning, and washing. Not to mention there is still plenty of time to he spent preparing the meal on the day such as cooking veg, rice, pasta etc to go with it.
Tony Blair: Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake.
Can people please stop asking Tony Blair for his opinions?
Better also reduce the cost of healthier food, ya knobhead.
I’ve thought that for years. Tax the high sugar/fat/alcohol stuff and use 100% of that tax to subsidise fresh fruit and veg.
that will just become profit for supermarkets. even if you legislate maximum prices for certain foods, it will still become profit for supermarkets but the quality will be reduced.
Who knew Tony Blair and Jamie Oliver had so much in common. Maybe Jamie Oliver is a secret war criminal.
He uses Bosch an awful lot now I think about it. 🤔
Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
You’re on an island surrounded by salt water, Tony. If people want salt, they’re gonna get salt.
It’s me or this is stupid and paternalist? What are “the poors” gonna eat then?
Soylent green! Made from their unfortunate neighbours.
What are “the poors” gonna eat then?
Well, there was a famous woman some years back who suggested cake as a viable alternative…
How about instead of taxing junk food we just start eating the rich.
Eat Tony Blair.
Just another way to rob workers of more time and money and treat them like the serfs the leech class sees them as.
Sounds like someone needs a reminder to have his fucking cake cake and shit the fuck up up while eating it too or else it’s going to be shoved up his ass.
Rich fuck.
If you want the slightly less sensational version here’s the original reporting on what he said: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blair-calls-for-tax-on-junk-food-times-health-commission-2gd7hhh69
I think this would be more effective than a lot of us lefties would like to admit. “Healthy” food is already affordable, people just don’t want to eat it when there are other options.
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It’s not a tax on poor people, its a tax on unhealthy food, which you’ll be surprised to find out that everyone eats regardless of economic class.
