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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Category: Food
Miranda Devine, as usual, is very sensible about an issue...

Monica Trapaga, singer, entertainer, former ABC Play School presenter, mother of two and all-round nice person, has suddenly become the bete noir of the fascist food movement.

Yes Monica! She has made an advertisement for Coco Pops™. In the eyes of the food nazis, she couldn't be more evil if she was a White Male Heterosexual™.

The Parents Jury issued a media release last week about the Coco Pops ad, quoting angry unnamed parents.
"My opinion of Kellogg's and Monica Trapaga has taken a nosedive," says one.
"I was incensed when I saw the ad with Monica and Coco Pops . . . Of course any child seeing Monica say it's good to eat Coco Pops is going to think that it is OK," says another.
"I am disappointed in her [Monica] as she has achieved a lot in the entertainment of children . . . yet now she is not showing the same regard to their health," says another.

You may wonder at Miranda's skill in the apostrophe department but the "Parents Jury" opts to punctuate itself thus. We've pointed at them before and they still have children on their homepage consuming vast amounts of sugar in the form of watermelon. Just think how much fructose (which converts gram for gram, near enough, to glucose or sucrose) those kids are going to eat in the name of good health!
And then there's this "Duh!" moment:

Salt levels in bacon twice as high as seawater
Daily Mail ( UK )
11/10/05
by FIONA MACRAE and ROBIN YAPP
It may look more appetising than seawater. But having a bacon sandwich for breakfast is hardly better for your health.
A study has found that, gram for gram, bacon contains twice as much salt as the Atlantic Ocean.

Look at that disgusting piece of journalism: "twice as much salt as the Atlantic Ocean". How do they mean that to be read? And who thought that a bacon sandwich was a great piece of nutrition right there? We all know that a bit of bacon for breakfast, like MOST foods is a treat to be had occasionally. To quote Pete Townsend "Too Much of Anything is too much for me".
What really irritates me is the name of the organisation. Not for them the honest if a bit bland "Concerned Parents for Good Nutrition". No, these second-quartile intellect university graduates decide they can represent all of us. This is hubris at best and more likely presumptuous arrogance.

Every time these thickhead Parent's Jury [deliberate apostrophisation] goons think about putting out a press release they should consult the Man on the Clapham Omnibus for a healthy dose of common sense.

- posted by Semi @ 3:15 PM 1 comments