[lit-ideas] Re: Book Your Airline Tickets Now
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 10:54:18 +0000 (GMT)
That's a good idea, and we could do with something like it. I suppose it could
be linked to something like Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food.
The current Government has cut back radically on public health promotion for
reasons financial and ideological. Its healthy food initiative or rather, its
commercial "partners"', was a book of discount vouchers redeemable against
certain of the companies' products, allegedly healthy ones; a book available to
qualifying people on application/at some health-welfare centres, and to anybody
who bought the News of the World. There were also discount vouchers for only
vaguely related products, for example, dining tables.
Oh I forgot -- the books weren't available in Wales.
The only discount healthy food I can recall was a branded wholemeal bread which
may still have been more expensive after discount than an own-brand one, and is
no better than them.
That was some while ago, the initiative sank without trace.
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
--- On Sat, 5/11/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Book Your Airline Tickets Now
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 18:30
On Nov 5, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
>>Here's what happens to your gestural ability when you get tucked into the
>>Scottish diet:
>Perhaps I should have written "one's" gestural ability? Poncy perhaps, but
>otherwise I >think it may sound hostile.
Particularly as some of us eschew deep-fried pizza?! -- "one"'s underused now;
"you" certainly can be ambiguous.
I'm pondering the Welsh diet. I'd say its deficiencies correlate with poverty,
lack of education, and so on. "Eat like the (Southern) English" isn't that
sensible an exhortation, perhaps.
Here's one among several current U.S. responses to the problem.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/foods-new-foot-soldiers/
http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/foodcorps-service-members-speak/
David Ritchie,Portland, Oregon
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