Guardian: "McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy"

[Stoic]

It's their world and you just live in it. So STFU and be nice little consumers.

Guardian UK

The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.

In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five "responsibility deal" networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month...

[ixion]

1. Letting the fox guard the hen house isn't a stupidity limited to the US

as evidenced here.

Have you had your Daily Minimum Requirement of McBurgers today? :puke:

[madmax]

3. My thoughts exactly. On all points. nt

[madmax]

2. I could expect this from the US

but, England? What the hell is happening to you?

[elocs]

4. Yesterday morning on LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4613691

Also yesterday morning in GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9550329