Too much of a mouthful, even for the Mail
The Daily Mail continues its schizophrenic approach to the coalition today through the rather unexpected cause of the Food Standards Agency. In the past, the Mail has ranked the FSA as the worst of the nanny-state, elf ‘n’ safety mob. Indeed only a month ago, the paper demanded the early death of the FSA, calling it a ‘£135 million drain on the taxpayer and a menace to the public’ and ’a mouthpiece for big business’.
Today the Mail has decided that the FSA is necessary after all, in order to fight against the ‘junk food mountain’ that non-Mail readers allegedly feed their children. But the photo of the junk food shown, which the Mail claims an average child eats each year, has some interesting ingredients. For instance bran cereals, milk, fruit juice and fish in breadcrumbs.
Whilst I agree that the amount of processed meat, cakes and biscuits does look huge, other foods look reasonable in a balanced diet. But the Mail seems unable to decide if it is for or against the nannying of parents and children, just in the way that it has not yet settled a view on the coalition government.
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