Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
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.
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.
I still like the idea of making junk food more expensive though. Stay with me for a second on this:
If only the rich can afford it they might consume it more often to separate themselves from us plebs. With a bit of luck that leads to them suffering health problems. And going back to healthy food would mean giving up on priviledges, so that wont happen.
No need to eat the rich if they perish on their own ;-)
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?
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.
The food in Britain is already ridiculously cheap. And yet people choose to eat shit instead.
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.
Can people please stop asking Tony Blair for his opinions?
Let's ask Tony Blair what he thinks about tour idea.
It's me or this is stupid and paternalist? What are "the poors" gonna eat then?
The rich at this rate
Permanently Deleted
Too much sugar
Soylent green! Made from their unfortunate neighbours.
Sugar free cake
The whole world has shown people can’t handle calorie management in their own.
Totally agree raising costs alone is terrible though.
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.
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
How about instead of taxing junk food we just start eating the rich.
Eat Tony Blair.
Kinky
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.
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.
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. 🤔
Just another way to rob workers of more time and money and treat them like the serfs the leech class sees them as.
Tony Blair: Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake.
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?!
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
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.
LONDON CHEETO PARTY FAM
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.
Salt doesn't make people fat, and taxing poor people isn't the only way to nudge behaviors.
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.