Re: Sugar Sugar and YET MORE SUGAR!
I almost missed this thread !
Saw the program, it went very predictably the same way all these TV chef capers do . . . which is nowhere !
Jamie is a part of the "Institution" same as Hugh-Fernly.
Neither of them have changed or solved any of the real problems and that's because to do so requires taking on the powers that be, the very "institution" itself, and as these fakes are a part of it, they predictably don't fight it.
Jamie failed miserably with the great "Free Range Chicken" campaign. He gave us TV shock tactics by killing new-born chicks on live TV to explain to us what the industry does.
But in the end he didn't tackle the actual problem, which was the cost of a battery chicken vs the cost of free-range. Hence the campaign failed. All he did was help the free-range producers get rich for a short while until the "fad" was over. Back in the world of reality there is very little free-range chicken in the supermarkets again.
Sugar is something I'm kinda passionate about. It's a killer. It's the real culprit for people's obesity and health problems. The corporations who produce it and force it into just about every foodstuff have been waging a war on human health for some years. It has been and continues to be one of the most insipid atrocities waged on humankind in the past century.
The issue at stake is not to do with money. It is not to do with education and awareness. A "Sugar-tax" is utterly laughable, it is simple a mechanism for making more people rich at our expense. Jamie knows this. He also knows what the real problem is, but he isn't doing anything about it.
The root of the problem is that our governments are in the pockets of the conglomerates like the sugar and salt producers.
Every fibre of an honest person's mind and soul should be revolted that ANYONE is permitted to load foodstuffs with dangerously high levels of ANYTHING. That is the real problem that has to be tackled. That tens of spoonfuls of sugar are permitted to go into drinks or sauces is nothing short of a crime to humanity and should be punished and ended immediately.
If we were talking about conglomerates putting spoonfuls of cocaine or heroine in foods we wouldn't be talking about a "Cocaine tax" we would be utterly outraged that the government has been allowing any company to put the stuff in foods in the first place. That is where the fight lays, in stopping our leaders from allowing this assault on human health in the first place. It is immoral, should be illegal and should be dealt with as a serious crime.
Problems like this pervade our society everywhere. Look at the stupid "payday" loans which advertise APR% of 2000% and upwards. It is utterly immoral. You can't blame the payday companies. You HAVE to blame the government who permits this kind of business. There should be laws against it, it is utterly wrong in every moral sense.
The proliferation of sugar in all our foodstuffs both done in full view and done covertly via deliberately loose labelling laws, is little more than a legalised national drug addicting scam in which the conglomerates are the pimp dealers who have been given free reign to deliberately addict the bulk of the population for profit. It is outrageous.
I HATE sugar, esp white refined sugar and I do not buy bags of it. Yet as I have been exposed to it all of my life, like most people I find it hard to eradicate it from my life.
I AM careful about reading labels and looking at the sugar content in anything. Even so, I know that I will still be being duped by labelling laws which don't sufficiently force companies to fully declare all the forms of sugars in the products.
People have to wake up, to this and to all the other atrocities being waged on us. Stop buying sugar. Stop buying products containing high sugar content. Stop buying processed foods altogether. Stick to what comes out of the ground naturally or what animals provide naturally. Meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains etc.
If you are following TV celebrities and thinking they really want to tackle these problems then you are being duped. They are out to make money for themselves and for the companies they are aligned to. Not one of them actually ever solves the problems they start campaigns for. They just find ways to make YOU spend more money for a while.
Sugar is poison. Get it out of your life any way you can.
If you are on a "diet" and haven't first eradicated sugar from your life then imo you are completely wasting your time and deluding yourself, likely hopping from one diet to the next, always putting the lbs back on. Diets per say do not work because they represent a temporary style of eating that is different to your regular style of eating. Eventually that temporary style of eating ends and you revert back to regular style of eating and that's where the lbs go back on.
You have to change your regular style of eating permanently. You can't do that by dieting. It is a life choice and a life change and it starts by removing sugar from your diet and by then being resolved to eat what Nature provides naturally. I still struggle with this don't get me wrong, but every part of me knows instinctively that sugar is a drug more potent, more addictive and ultimately more harmful than many Class A drugs. We are being conned. We are being poisoned, systematically. Wake up and see it for what it is. Our masters are crooked, corrupt and wicked. Don't let them take your health for their profit.