Supermarkets in England ‘blatantly disregarding’ rules over where they place crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks | Health

4 comments

1. How is it the responsibility of these shops for childhood obesity? Sainsburies is not my dad

2. Who will be the first shopkeeper to be taken to court for putting food with a particular chemical composition on the wrong shelf?

   If they don’t simply subtly take money off them as punishment to avoid a spotlight being cast on this sort of ‘policy’, that manner of publicity would be a fine thing.

   I have said before, and will reiterate here, that these measures which treat the public as animals to be steered hither and thither heedlessly are implemented at the cost of the very authority to do so on the part of their enacters, who ostensibly derive all of their power from the concept of a voting public capable – on mass and in aggregate no less – of sensibly electing and instructing their representatives in government.

   If their eating habits can be changed by altering what shelf food is placed on in a shop, what of their voting habits?

   In short, it is well that they are flouted.

3. I was looking to buy a single chocolate bar recently. Couldn’t find where they’d been moved to now they’re not in an obvious place. Ended up in the chocolate aisle where they only had multipacks so I bought four instead.

4. People talk about freedom of choice but often do not realise that companies and supermarkets are gaming the system to influence your choice to their junk food. We live in an obesogenic environment and the results are clear to see in every town in the UK, yet people still think that they are eating junk in moderation. When 90% of Brits are deficient for dietary fibre and struggle to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day (a number chosen by the NHS because they thought it was easy to achieve), you realise how bad the nation’s diet is.