Posts by Danielle
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
A punitive tax on "bad food", as Emma says, is not merely a tax on fizzy drinks.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Subsisting entirely on air is really low-carb. Possibly even paleo.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
You don't need nicotine to live. You need food to live.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
yes I’m all for all those ideas, but they relate to wider, big picture issues.
Yes, they do. Because we're arguing that narrowly focussing on "shame and tax the fat kids and their parents" is an unhelpful, simplistic strategy.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to ,
I think Twitter Me is coming to hang out with Public Address Me, with predictable results. ;)
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
a punitive tax seems to be the only thing we haven’t tried thus far
Did you even read Megan's amazing, beautiful post up there in which she lays out structural changes which have NOT been tried and are not even LIKELY to be tried and yet would make HUGE differences without being at all punitive? Have you read any of the posts in which people might conceivably be pro such a tax IF OTHER VERY IMPORTANT CONDITIONS ARE MET? Finally, am I losing my fucking mind on this thread? (Yes.)
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Lilith __,
I'm still allowed to hate gardening more than anything, right? :)
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I don't think there's anyone here who believes that sugar DOESN'T cause tooth decay. We're hardly members of the Flat Earth Society.
I'm going to keep this very simple. Public health educational initiatives GOOD and EFFECTIVE (probably); accosting random parents at the dairy BAD and INEFFECTIVE (probably).
So wandering the earth making judgement calls about what you see as poor parenting isn't doing any fundamental social good. It just gives professional concern trolls a sense of self-satisfaction.
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I think “culinary righteousness” is what we’ve actually been arguing AGAINST. But yeah, OK, flouncing is good too.
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I think we should all post our favourite baking recipes and see which of us can outdo the others in healthy food virtuousness. Someone could make a Listener cover story out of it.