Sunday, November 3, 2013

253. O governo de ultra direita britânico a privar as crianças de alimentos?

Benfiquista starving


Leia este artigo em inglês porque nós vamos também lê-lo ao mesmo que você, estimada leitora.

Mas segundo o título do artigo, parece que o Partido Conservador do Reino Unido anda a distribuir milhões aos super milionários e a afamar as criancinhas.

Parece-nos que as famílias proletárias mudaram dos vegetais para alimentos mais gordurosos e açucarados porque seriam mais baratos. 

Ao fazer isto, este Partido Conservador dos privilégios dos super privilegiados segue as pegadas da Dama de Ferro, Margareth Thatcher, antiga PM do Reino Unido, cuja política foi mais centrada numa espécie de guerra civil contra o seu próprio povo. Fez tantas, e tornou-se odiosamente tão anti-popular ao ponto do próprio partido dela a pôr no olho da rua.

No que diz respeito às crianças pobres do Reino Unido, ela foi tristemente célebre por ter tirado o leite gratuito distribuído às crianças nas escolas! A oposição batisou-a de  Thatcher the Snatcher!

O Governo Trabalhista-Labour do Primeiro Ministro Gordon Brown abria uma conta para toda a criança que nascia e punha lá 500 libras. 

A primeira coisa que o Governo direitista de Davide Camarão Plc fez foi fechar essas contas. Mas aboliu o imposto de 50 cênntimos  em cada libra para quem ganhasse mais de 50 mil libras por ano. 

Mais tarde aboliu também o   imposto de 50 cêntimos a quem ganhasse mais de 150 mil libras. Além de andarem todos ferozes a defender os milhões dos super milionários, quer dizer, deles próprios! E pouco fazem ou nada têm feito contra a evasão de biliões em lucros imposáveis  para os paraísos fiscais! Isto está mesmo lindo! 

Já havia desafios enormes ao nível da obesidade da população e o Governo Untra reacionário de Davide Camerão ainda vai engordurar mais a pobrezada e as contas bancária da tribo no governo e cortesãos a girar em volta de Westminster, tais como os contractors que andam envolvidos em fraudes escandalosas a  vampirizar os impostos do contribuinte. Quem não quer ser lobo não lhe vista a pele. 

Se a economia não estivesse manhosa pela Europa, incluindo o Reino Unido, pensamos que os Lib Dems do Vice-Primeiro Ministro Nick Cleg já tinha madado lixar a coligação governamental onde se meteram. 

Estes já devem de estar bastante arrependidos de terem embarcado em tal aventura. Isso só os tem prejudicado na opinião pública. 

Vamos ver se as super skills retóricas de Nick Cleg vão chegar para não deixar afundar a Partido Liberal Democrata nas próximas eleições em 2015, caso ele não entre em pânico e se pire dali para bem longe antes de sufocar lá com o cheiro.

Valha-nos Deus!


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Recession hits family spending on fresh food


Girl eating a strawberryFruit has risen in price by 34% since 2007, according to the Office for National Statistics

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Young families cut back on fresh fruit and vegetables and switched to less healthy processed food as the recession squeezed budgets, a UK study has found.
It showed rising food prices and stagnating wages led people to buy less food and choose cheaper products.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said pensioners, single parent households and families had the biggest drop in the nutritional quality of their diets.
The Children's Food Trust said the move to processed food was a "huge worry".
The report's authors used food purchasing data from 15,850 British households from 2005 to 2012, enabling them to analyse the impact on spending of the recession.
They found that households spent 8.5% less on food in real terms across the period as disposable incomes failed to keep pace with rising food prices.

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Over the recession households have responded to higher food prices and the squeezes on their incomes by switching to cheaper calories”
Kate SmithEconomist
People also swapped the type of food they bought, shifting from fresh fruit and vegetables to "calorie dense" processed food, with a resulting increase in saturated fat and sugar content.
Food prices rose by 33% between 2007 and 2013, official figures show. Butter, meat and fruit prices all increased by more than average while processed food rose by 28%.
The IFS researchers found that on every measure, pensioner households, single parents and families with young children experienced a worse-than-average decline in nutritional quality.
Pensioners tended to increase their purchases of fatty foods while households with young children chose more sugary products.
Chart showing how different groups have cut back on food spending
IFS research economist Kate Smith, one of the authors of the report, said: "Over the recession households have responded to higher food prices and the squeezes on their incomes by switching to cheaper calories.
"This has coincided with a fall in the nutritional quality of foods purchased, with moves away from fresh fruit and vegetables and towards processed foods. As a result, the average saturated fat and sugar content of food purchases has increased over this period."
Children's Food Trust chief executive Linda Cregan said: "Feeding children well is absolutely crucial for their future health - these figures are an indication of just how tough this has become for many families in recent years.
"Some of the trends in this report are a huge worry - we need to see the foods children eat containing less saturated fat, salt and sugar, not more."
Long-term calorie fall
A second report from the IFS, looked at longer term trends.
Between 1980 and 2009, households bought 15% to 30% fewer calories, but average weight continued to climb.
During this time there was a big rise in snacking and eating out, but an even bigger fall in calories bought for the home during the 40-year period.
"We were surprised to find that there has been a substantial decline in total calories purchased at a time when obesity has increased," said one of this study's authors Melanie Luhrmann.
"This does not mean that poor diet plays no part in rising obesity. But understanding the interaction between diet and physical activity is clearly crucial."
Both reports are being presented as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science in London.

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