I've always been staggered at people hating Jamie Oliver and sending him death threats for... making children's school dinners healthier and... Pushing for increasing the cost of a can of coke by 5p and using the extra tax revenue to aid in childhood obesity prevention schemes.

Doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me lmao. The greasy pucks of gristle you ate at school when you were younger and called turkey twizzlers weren't good food. That's nostalgia talking.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 0 points 1 year ago

I don't hate Jamie Oliver. I just recognise that his initiatives come from a slightly misguided sense of privilege.

The school dinners initiative was good. I'm glad kids aren't eating turkey twizzlers all the time (I don't think I've ever had one myself but I wouldn't begrudge people who want them).

The sugar tax however is a flaming pile of bullshit. Coke are pretty much the only company that forced the 5p increase onto the consumer. Almost every single other manufacturer kept their price the same and swapped out a bunch of sugar for sweetners, giving you no option but to have diet or semi-diet everything. It just allowed corporations to line their pockets by cutting costs and the general public doesn't drink any less sugary drinks.