Posted on 07/07/2008 8:11:43 AM PDT by Uncledave
Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.
The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.
It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives".
The 366-page guide for staff in charge of pre-school children, called Young Children and Racial Justice, warns: "Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships."
It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
On America’s Test Kitchen, they made Beef Stroganoff with Brandy instead of red wine. Would your kid like it?
My daughter will eat ANYTHING if it contains sour cream!!!!! Doesn’t matter what else is in it, if it contains sour cream or sour cream can be added to it she’s on it like white on rice (another favorite of hers.)
>Not really interested in mock meats. Ill stick to the real thing, thanks anyway. If it aint broke, dont fix it why eat fake ribs when I can have REAL ribs?
Think of the cholesterol and fat.
>I do find it curious that vegans say humans are not naturally carnivorous, and then go out of their way to replicate the flavor and texture of meat.
Because we aren’t. Google the word “umami”. I’m a vegetarian for health reasons and also a bit for moral reasons too in that factory farming is a disrespect to the animal’s life.
What if they do smell?
This is one of the most asinine things I’ve ever heard. The conceivers of this should be force fed foods they don’t like until they beg for mercy.
>> Im a vegetarian for health reasons and also a bit for moral reasons too in that factory farming is a disrespect to the animals life.
More power to you, I suppose. I disagree, and thus choose otherwise. Freedom is a beautiful thing — people are free to live their lives according to those tenets they deem worthy. God bless America.
“Health reasons” doesn’t really sway me — I’m in reasonably good shape. I just don’t buy that humans have been eating wrong for thousands of years.
Factory farmining/ animal rights stuff doesn’t really sway me either. My father-in-law was a butcher, I am aware of how animals are killed for consumption. I’ve seen a couple of the livestock farms myself (I am an attorney and have represented a couple of farming businesses in tax matters, and thus visited their operation).
I suppose it can be upsetting to the weak-stomached, but such is the nature of eating meat. I see human consumption of cows, chickens, pork, bison, fish, shellfish, etc. as no more disrespectful than a lion eating an antelope. We’re just higher on the food chain than they are — it is the natural order of things. And, we’re more intelligent than most carnivores, and thus able to streamline the meat-production process so as to free most of society from their obligation to hunt/slaughter for themselves (thus freeing their innovation to other areas).
It is the intersection of “health reasons” and “political reasons” that somewhat bothers me. It seems to me the intersection of the two can lead to the skewing of health data to serve a political purpose — which is exactly what I believe has happened to some extent. Meat can absolutely be part of a healthy diet ... as it has been since the earliest humans learned that wild animals and birds tasted good, and began developing effective methods of capturing them.
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There’s one way that the British government could uphold this indoctrination: prevent children from leaving school during lunch!
; )
I do remember seeing an email a while back about a website or proposed website being set up for conservative Brits but not sure if it got off the ground or is still going.
I told them due to my commitments on this site it would be unlikely I could participate
Will I do
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