Posts by Katharine Moody
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Sacha,
What led you to believe that other commenters here do not understand nutrition?
Someone referred to fizzy drink as food.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Danielle,
What do you want me to do here?
No, cut out the sarcasm, this is a serious subject - ask anyone hooked up to a dialysis machine three times a week.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to B Jones,
You left out the $20 or so you’d have to pay me to eat sardines.
Had you started young – they'd be one of your favourites.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Danielle,
“Here, everyone, let’s huddle around this warm and satisfying tin of sardines!”
No, we wouldn’t "huddle" around it – as you might do around chips in paper - we’d put the sardines on toast on a plate, sit down at the table, require everyone to use their fork and knife properly, talk about what happened at school/work during the day and afterwards we’d have green jelly and sliced banana. And I’m serious.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Sacha,
Why? I do not see anyone asking for advice.
It was earlier said that;
I know the cheapest way to fuel hungry people is hot chips.
That is a falsehood which I felt should be corrected - as someone might actually believe it to be true.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Here's the nutritional value of your hot chips:
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories-in-food/veg/chip-shop-chips.htm
Versus the nutritional value of sardines;
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=147
$1.20 a tin (x3) plus a loaf of multi-grain bread = $4.60
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Is no food better than “bad” food?
"Bad" food is not free either. Something was paid for it. Take your example of hot chips. How much did they cost and how many people were you feeding them to? I'll then provide you with a healthier alternative for the same cost.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Emma Hart,
But you’re not just talking about sugary drinks, right? You’re also talking about taxing “bad” food. So the cost of some foods goes up, and the costs of no foods go down, so people have to spend more money on food.
No. In fact look back - my first suggestion was to tax the shit out of fizzy drink and use that tax collected to subsidise the producers of milk and fruit to bring down the price of those healthier options.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Danielle,
You don’t need nicotine to live. You need food to live.
Fizzy drink is not food!!!!!!!!!!!
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Emma Hart,
and a horrible thing to do to people who are struggling.
What? It would be horrible to put stuff that is slowly but surely poisoning them out of their reach financially? Do you think the same of the tax on tobacco?
I’m against it because it would increase the functional poverty of families
I have no idea what is meant by "functional poverty" - but how can drinking free water, as opposed to not-free fizzy drink increase poverty?
and we all know that poverty is really bad for children.
Just as we know that obesity and tooth decay are bad for children.
I’m against it because it’s wrong both morally and practically.
So was what we have done with respect to tobacco also morally and practically wrong?