Schools may rule out 'hot cuppa' - more UK madness

Schools may rule out 'hot cuppa' - more UK madness

news.bbc.co.uk

Tea and coffee could be restricted in schools to pupils over the age of 16 in plans to encourage a healthy diet.
It is an option being considered as part of a consultation exercise by the School Food Trust (SFT).

Teachers' unions say this is another example of official bodies meddling in areas where they should not interfere.

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I thought the whole UK Nanny State et al was a load of nuts - total nonsense.

However, I am wrong.

Having just posted this thread on the UK government idea to charge £10 for a licence to buy ciggies we now have this.

Sometimes the government just needs to realise that it is there to serve the people!

And since when has tea been bad for you?


news.bbc.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 15/2/2008 by skibtz]

Originally posted by skibtz
Sometimes the government just needs to realise that it is there to serve the people!

sometimes(like now), the people just need to SHUT UP AND DO WHAT THEY'RE TOLD.

i don't believe that, but the uber-powers that be do. people are not individual sovereigns, they are "stock" and "chattel".

moo.

On the other hand mass amounts of caffeine is very bad for young people. This includes too much soda too. However I don't think it is the govt. place to curb this, I would leave it to the parents.

It's a pretty established fact that caffeine is not healthy, especially in larger doses, for children. Logically, school is the place where guardians have the least control of the child (they can drink 2 or 3 coffees or teas without it being noticed), so why not? It is no different than banning trans fats, smoking, or any other unhealthy activity at school.

I personally DO NOT AGREE with this, or most any law that limits the rights of a person to pursue whatever they please so long as no one else is endangered (Nanny Laws as you appropriately labeled them - I dig the term "Nanny State"). Sadly, this the way our western democracies are headed.

But then again, maybe the average citizen is such a stupid sheep, that if the government didn't let them know what a rational decision was (through taxes and laws), they would just wander aimlessly like, well, sheep?

Isn't it against the forum rules to change and/or edit a headline?

The tannin in tea, plus the caffeine isn't very good for you - fresh tea is better, but hard to get.

In your other thread, it's not the government who said it, it's some left wing think tank, known as an advisory body.

There's hundreds of advisory bodies of one type or another.

reply to post by budski


I think it is against the rules to change the headline in such a way as to deliberatley deceive or give an alternate meaning. I simply added (via a seperator ' - ') 'more UK madness' as alluded to by my immediate reference to my previous post on a £10 smoking licence.

While caffeine may not be good for you in large doses it is not a killer when consumed in moderation. But that is by the by. The problem arises when a 15 year-old bringS in a flask of de-caff! Or maybe they like green tea. Or herbal tea. What then? What if the kid continually brings in a flask of tea because they want to drink it? Do we then kick them out of that school for breaking the law/rules?

What if a hot cuppa was banned from the work place or banned full stop? Do we all go to prison for drinking tea? Absolutely crazy.

Think-tanks are employed by governments. In this scenario I don't see the seperation between the two. The think-tank becomes, albeit temporarily, an entity of the government while under their employment.

Indeed, there are hundreds of advisory bodies which have no doubt been responsible for hundreds of ridiculous UK laws pushed through by a totally mad government that is becoming increasingly potty by the day.


[edit on 16/2/2008 by skibtz]