Food

The United Nations, already performing a valuable function as a retirement home for failed Labour politicians, has now found a new planet-saving mission: Eat Bugs.

Its Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has just published a report produced after 10 years’ study and many, many, Expert Conferences attended by Global Delegates, promoting Insects as the new diet to save the planet.

For all you sinners who thought a T-Bone steak was a good feed, listen to the UN:

1.1 Why eat Insects?

• Health:
- Insects are healthy, nutritious alternatives to mainstream staples such as chicken, pork, beef and even fish (from ocean catch).
- Many insects are rich in protein and good fats and high in calcium, iron and zinc  Read more »

Once again the parties of the left, aided by their plants in the civil service are calling for poor kids to be fed at school.

Every day thousands of Kiwi kids go to school hungry or without lunch.

They are more likely to fail in school, to have poor health and to feel ashamed. Some of our considerable additional investment in children in low- decile schools is wasted because they can’t concentrate on learning. We are all affected by the additional costs of future low productivity and welfare dependency.

The expert advisory group on solutions to child poverty report I released in December last year recommended implementing a targeted food in schools programme to support children to learn and succeed.  Read more »

Interesting video on disciplining your child.

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What are Stuff and Labour trying to say? Hospital patients will be eating like any bloke left to his own devices by the missus for a couple of days?

Patients could be fed week-old food under Government plans for hospitals, leaked documents have revealed.

A report obtained by TV3 News yesterday showed food would be made in two hubs, in Christchurch and Auckland, and then transported to hospitals across the country, saving $10 million.

Some of the food could be chilled for up to a week before being served.  Read more »

I blogged about the prospect of guinea pig as a low cost meat. Now others are looking into it.

Guinea pig meat is healthy and on top of that greener than other meats.

Guinea pigs on the grill

You may best know the guinea pig as a nervous little pet that lives in a cage and eats alfalfa pellets.

Now, the rodents are increasingly showing up on plates in the United States.

South American restaurants on both coasts seem to be pushing the trend, answering to demand mostly from Andean expats for what is considered a fine and valuable food in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Middle-class foodies with a taste for exotic delicacies are also ordering, photographing and blogging about guinea pig. The animals — called cuyes in Spanish — are usually cooked whole, often grilled, sometimes deep fried. Many diners eat every last morsel, literally from head to toe.  Read more »

It’s the sort of thing Aussies would do, except they would use kangaroo…they once exported it as beef. Tesco has been found selling horse meat in their ‘beef’ burger products.

Horse meat has been found in burgers on sale in British supermarkets. Tests on beef products sold in Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Iceland and Dunnes Stores uncovered low levels of the animal’s DNA.

In Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, horse meat accounted for approximately 29 per cent of the meat. The supermarket announced last night that it was removing all fresh and frozen burgers from sale immediately regardless if they had been found to contain horse meat.  Read more »

We started our Saturday by paying our respects to Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., the hard-charging US Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War.  He died aged 78.  At The Standard 2012 Worst Political Blog Mike Smith is told some home truths about long term grass-roots Labour families heading for the Greens.  A quick vid on how to put out a boat fire the Kiwi way is next, followed by a vote for Best Minister.  The winner, at 52%, is Judith Collins.  The Whale Week That Was summarised all the stories this blog covered in the previous seven days.  A quite active Saturday Debate (for the time of year especially) led a post calling for nominations for Best Political Blog.  Those who see WOBH as any sort of threat to them (and those that don’t too), should take heed of this Malcolm Tucker quote: “marshal all the media forces of Darkness to hound them to an assisted suicide”.  A CNN piece showing Teachers in Utah taking a class on gun use shows some common sense around the gun debate.  A reader has taken yesterday’s US Fiscal Cliff graphic and created one for New Zealand – great work.  As Cameron Slater predicted from the outset, the Aussie Hoax DJs will not face charges.  The NZ Herald continues to amuse – this time a car crashed into a poll.  The blog then introduces us to two sexy taxidermists showing you don’t have to look like a front row forward to deal with dead animals.  And you’d think we’re picking on an incompetent NZ Herald, and you would be right.  This time they have Jesse Ryder beating himself at Eden Park in Wellington.  Then a hilarious story about a Queensland woman who fell into the longdrop and was there for two hours before being discovered by her husband.   Turns out that during the Falklands War the French tried to send missiles to Argentinia behind Margaret Thatcher‘s back.  Commerce first eh?  The last post of the day highlights a report of a man holding up a Countdown Supermarket with a hammer.  Our readers get fired up about the idea of hammer banning.

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There are some good pommy bastards out there. UK Food Minister Owen Paterson is one of them:

Genetically modified food should be grown and sold widely in Britain and consumer opposition to the technology is a “complete nonsense”, the Cabinet minister in charge of food and farming has said.

Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, made the remarks as ministers prepare to relax controls on the cultivation of GM crops, which he said had “real environmental benefits”.

Some senior Government figures privately believe that the technology — which can increase crop yields and prevent disease — is essential in assuring Britain’s future food security and to avoid dependency on imports.

Any move to allow the use of GM crops could be highly controversial, but Mr Paterson dismissed critics of the technology as “humbugs” and said that the case for GM food now needed to be made “emphatically”.

Red Alert really is becoming the wank-piece for backbench Labour MPs desperate to get themselves higher up the Trans-Tasman political rankings. Iain Lees-Galloway is one of them. Yesterday he continued Labour’s we know best attitude with a post on food labelling. I’ve posted on Lees-Galloway before for stirring shit. He really should stick to running one up parliamentary stenographers.

On Saturday, fellow we-know-best Labour MP Sue Moron(ey) had a crack at Tim Macindoe for not supporting her idea of compulsory nutrition labelling and warnings on alcohol.

It seems these two are oblivious to the law of unintended consequences, instead wishing to believe Iain’s much loved Occam’s Razor where the simplest available theory need not be the most accurate.

Sue and Iain reckon that a forcing a labelling system on food and booze so that it’s broken down by fat, sugar, salt, saturated fat matched by coloured labels to show unhealthy levels (red for bad, green for good) will make people make healthier choices.

Typical of Labour luddites, thinking the more green lights a product gets the better along with thinking food/booze labels are so powerful that people will blindly follow them and change what they buy. Remember Labour’s downfall over showerheads?

I thought I’d help them out and explain to them how this backfires and creates an embarrassing mess for Sue and Iain.

The next time they’re having a stiff drink wondering which David to vote for, they may suddenly realise that the one product that gets the maximum number of green labels (whoops isn’t that Labour’s definition of the healthiest food choices possible?) is Vodka, Whiskey, Gin and Rum!

Each gets four green light labels – the maximum positive score using Labour’s system because they’re fat-free, salt-free, sugar-free and have no saturated fat.

Labour’s labelling system makes milk look like an unhealthy choice. Fail.

A circular saw to cut your food with, ex Amazon