The march of the public health puritans
Two days ago Christopher Snowdon published a useful Critic piece on the latest manifestation of what seems like an endless stream of official hectoring over the food we eat.
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Misleading the public until the bitter end, the Department of Health and Social Care issued a press release this morning confirming that “junk food adverts” will be banned on TV before 9pm and online 24/7 from next October. It used the legally meaningless phrase “junk food” five times.
Junk food is in the eye of the beholder, but is obviously pejorative. That is why politicians and “public health” lobbyists use it. If they abandoned the weasel words and told us what is actually being prohibited, even natural allies of the nanny state might conclude that the advertising ban — which goes far beyond anything introduced elsewhere in the world — is a bit excessive.
The whole piece is well worth reading as these tedious assaults on our personal independence tend to drop out of the headlines as soon as some other insanity pops up.
We are only five months into a Labour government and already we have legislation going through parliament for tobacco prohibition, a ban on disposable vapes, a vape tax, an e-cigarette advertising ban, and a ban on advertisements for everyday food products. For those of us who believe in personal liberty and free markets, it is a depressing time to be alive. We can only hope that the pace of authoritarian government meddling slows down once Keir Starmer has implemented all the policies left over from the Rishi Sunak regime.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-march-of-public-health-puritans.html
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