Lawyers Attack America’s Big Food Companies
This story from the BBC tells how the lawyers who made billions of dollars fighting tobacco companies have now turned their guns on the Big Food companies.
Given America’s obesity, I can’t say that I’m against their tactics, but I do wonder if the lawyers are motivated by money. Although, the lawyer interviewed says at 68, he doesn’t need the money.
I did notice the foods he was targeting, which did include canned fruits, tinned tomatoes and tea. Canned fruits, I can understand, although I haven’t knowingly eaten any for perhaps fifty years, except for possibly a pineapple-upside-down pudding, that C occasionally made before I went gluten-free. But canned tomatoes and tea. Admittedly, the canned tomatoes in my cupboard are organic, but the only additive is citric acid. My tea is organic too. so how do these get adulterated in the United States?
The Issue Too Hot For The US Presidential Candidate
This piece on the BBC talks about the subject that is not being mentioned by either of the US Presidential candidates; guns and specially the case of Trayvon Martin.
The United States must get to grips with its gun culture. It’s now starting to spill over into the UK and it’s an American import we don’t want or need.
An Interesting Take On American Sports
I just found this article entitled US Sports Going The Way Of The Gladiator, on CNN’s web site.
These are the first two paragraphs.
Are American sports fans turning into the citizens of ancient Rome, turning up to sports events to see mayhem akin to gladiators fighting for their very lives?
Stars in two of the country’s most prominent sports were asking those kinds of questions Sunday.
Here in the UK, we’ve made our sports a lot safer. Cricketers now wear helmets and even our footballers wear protection on their lower legs.
But after reading the article on CNN, it might appear that the United States is going the other way. Read the article and the comments and draw your own conclusions.
What Food Lover Would Smuggle American Cheese?
I like cheese and especially a nice good blue one, but why anybody would want to smuggle American cheese, I really don’t know? I suppose it could be a taste crime, like the sort of clothes beloved of golfers.
One question the article provokes in my mind, is does North America have designer cheese-makers? After all why not, as we had none thirty years ago and now they are everywhere.
Don’t Americans Know Guns Kill People?
This tragic case from the BBC web site, shows why I think those who own guns need either very intensive training or to be certified.
I remember once reading the US gun crime statistics and many of those killed were children and young people, shot by a friend or family member by accident.
I think even if a high-ranking politician was shot dead in a genuine accident, it wouldn’t cure Americans addiction to guns.
Romney Drops Himself In It!
Mitt Romney has some interesting views on those who vote for Obama. Read about them here on the BBC.
Now Mormon Mitt is the sort of politician, I wouldn’t vote for. But lets hear his views on Iran, the death penalty and that viral video attacking Islam.
But with a few more gaffs like yesterday, I suspect he’ll lose the election.
Murray Celebrates Like A True Sober Scot – Irn-Bru And HobNobs
The Times has reported this is how Andy Murray has celebrated his victory in the US Open.
I suppose deep-fried Mars Bars are difficult to get in New York. But then he doesn’t look like he eats many!
NBC Treats Paralympics With Contempt
Two of the UK’s broadsheets; The Times and The Telegraph, have turned their ire this morning on to the American broadcaster NBC, for its appalling coverage of the Paralympic Games. read the report in The Telegraph here.
I know I’m not watching the Paralympics live, as I don’t watch channels with adverts, unless it’s an important sporting event, that I’m interested in. But I am following the Games on BBC Radio 5 Live and television news reports.
I could cynically suggest that no-one in America would advertise in the breaks of the Paralympics, as it might give your organisation the wrong image. But I don’t know the facts.
Here in the UK, all the major channels have back-up digital channels, like BBC with BBC3 and BBC4 and Channel 4 with More4 and E4, which they use to compliment their major coverage, so can’t NBC put the Paralympics on a back-up free-to-air digital channel or is America so sophisticated that it doesn’t have an equivalent of our Freeview.
God Gives Her Verdict On Romney
It would appear that God is throwing everything she can at Tampa to try to stop the Republican Convention picking Mormon Mitt as their Presidential candidate. Read all about it here.
The Anonymous Widower 