Can people stop asking Tony Blair for his opinions?
Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
Submitted 2 years ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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DoneItDuncan@feddit.uk 2 years ago
warmaster@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Let’s ask Tony Blair what he thinks about tour idea.
raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
It’s me or this is stupid and paternalist? What are “the poors” gonna eat then?
czarrie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The rich at this rate
TheBawbe83@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
What are “the poors” gonna eat then?
Well, there was a famous woman some years back who suggested cake as a viable alternative…
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Too much sugar
Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Soylent green! Made from their unfortunate neighbours.
AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 years ago
[deleted]naught@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Do you mean government subsidized highly addictive, processed, junk food with predatory marketing pushed by gigantic multinational corporations? Do not shirk their responsibility in this. It’s not the average person’s fault.
raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
My problem is the whole “poor people eat poorly because they are stupid. I will force them to take the good decision”
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sugar free cake
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why is every politicians answer to everything “make the poor pay more money!”?
If I go buy the ingredients to make cheeseburgers for my family nowadays, out will cost just as much as if I went to burger king to buy them. The so called junk food is many times the cheapest option. These fucks just want to kill off the poor with taxes
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 years ago
The ones you make at home will undoubtedly be healther in a lot of ways than the BK ones though.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah but you’re missing the point. It costs the same, and I’m wrecked from work and don’t have time or energy to cook, so I’ll take the fast food every time
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Better also reduce the cost of healthier food, ya dickhead.
butterypowered@feddit.uk 2 years ago
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.
throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
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.
TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 2 years ago
How about instead of taxing junk food we just start eating the rich.
tal@kbin.social 2 years ago
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.
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 2 years ago
Who knew Tony Blair and Jamie Oliver had so much in common. Maybe Jamie Oliver is a secret war criminal.
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 years ago
He uses Bosch an awful lot now I think about it. 🤔
Neato@kbin.social 2 years ago
Just another way to rob workers of more time and money and treat them like the serfs the leech class sees them as.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Tony Blair: Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake.
donutaud15@lemmy.world 2 years ago
How about we take these fuckers champagne and shove it up where the sun don’t shine?! Seriously how dare they think of more ways to starve people?! Surely if he gives a damn then he should tackle the fact people are struggling to eat and live rather than worry about some so called obesity crisis?!
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 years ago
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
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 2 years ago
LONDON CHEETO PARTY FAM
noodle@feddit.uk 2 years ago
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.
robo@feddit.uk 2 years ago
[deleted]noodle@feddit.uk 2 years ago
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.
wiccan2@feddit.uk 2 years ago
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.
Thus is exactly the kind of thing is expect from someone so far removed from the day to day reality of normal people.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I said it above, but buying the fresh produce and ingredients to cook up a meal, note costs me just as much as it would to go grab fast food. And like you said, it saves me the time and saves me having to be in a hot kitchen for an hour when it’s 35⁰ c outside.
ribboo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I mean it really doesn’t. There’s literally no fast food you can’t do cheaper at home. Sure, you might have to pay a bit more, but you’ll then have at least twice the amount of food.
Kevin11@lemdro.id 2 years ago
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?
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
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
BatrickPateman@feddit.de 2 years ago
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 2 years ago
If they’re all very fat, won’t that be better for basting?
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Meal prep then, cook a big meal or two on Sunday and eat them though the week.
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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.
Borkingheck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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.
Aux@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The food in Britain is already ridiculously cheap. And yet people choose to eat shit instead.
donutaud15@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m glad to see people like you who thinks that eating shit is a choice. It’s cute.
Let me explain how it works for some who are not as privileged: when people are hungry, they buy cheap. It doesn’t matter if some over privileged cunt think they are eating shit. It matters that something fills hungry, grumbly tummies. Especially for ones with kids. People really need to get off their fucking high horses and just let people eat. Jesus. It’s not hard.
Yes it may not be the healthiest. But it sure beats outright starvation.