I just had to have a say on this most frustrating of matters. I don't know if anybody has checked this in a while, but I have to put my feelings into words!
Today, as you may very well know, they have had a 'major' [and the emphasis on the major, has been used for ironic effect] news story, which has captured the attention of all the news outlets. A major attack on our British troops in Iraq? No. A terror strike in the heart of another major city? Not yet. No, nothing compare to the actual story, which is a load of crap. COOKING OIL! Oh yes, you heard me, a cooking oil freaking story.
Apparently, a child who eats one packet of crisps a day is likely to have consumed more than 5 litres of cooking oil in a year. OH GOD, WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN! How can this even be such a huge news story? Normally, if such news is mentioned occasionally, I put it down to being a slow news day and they need this to fill up a gap. But today is different, for no less than twenty times I have watched/heard/seen that same poster of a child drinking from a plastic oil carton with the same news. I don't freakin care about it honestly, so why is it getting such big airplay on the news channels? A small story would probably have gotten the mesage across just as clearly, yet the media have plunged onto the news bulletins and even mentioned it up to three times in half an hour.
So what's the big deal here? Am I as well as everybody else supposed to be shocked that when a large number of food items in consumed, that there is also a large number/volume of ingredients consumed that are contained inside the food item that is eaten? It's common sense. Next we'll be hearing and reading that if you eat three scoops of ice cream a day, you are likely to have eaten FIVE TONNES OF ICE in a whole year! :o OH NO!
One news report I overheard just now showed a woman inside a school talking to a bunch of children. She seems polite as she asks the children how many of them have had a packet of crisps today already. A good number put their hands up. Then the lady, again politely, asks if any of them are planning to have a packet of crisps later or after school. A few more hands go up. She then goes on, saying "Well how would you like to have this instead?" And she slams down onto the table [No exaggeration] a litre bottle of cooking oil. A clear cut in the videotape and then it shows the children all 'Eurgh-ing' in unison. Yes, because they have been told to to do it. I don't think the children, who lookd about four or five years old, even knew what itwas, and some probably greedily looked at it like it was some kind of new fizzy drink. Does she earn her money by scaring these kids into eating less snack food? Does she know that taking out a lot of this oil will mean the crisps taste less good, and that PC means another thing that the next generation will miss out on purely because the kids aren't getting enough exercise which means they're all turning fat and hence the banning/cutting down on nice treats like chocolate and crisps? It's fine to scare the children but not to give advice to the parents first? Well done for furining a good thing! I had crisps when I was younger and I ain't fat or unhealthy because I knew the consequences thanks to good teaching from my parents and teachers to some extent.
Finally, I think I have finished my rant. thanks for reading. If you agree or disagree, comment. I would love to hear other sides to this story.
EDIT: Here is the offending poster, and I also found out this is all the doing of the British Heart Foundation. Maybe they thought people were forgetting who they were and so did this to stop us forgetting them. Hehe, I know, that's a lie :D
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