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Melody Anderson
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:47 am Post Subject: Is Raw Offal part of the Food pyramid? I don't think so... |
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What a completely bizarre situation...
We now live in a New Zealand where the kids at the school at the end of our street aren't allowed outside without a sunhat on, even in the middle of winter; their mothers block the entire street with their vehicles from as early as 2pm as they wait to collect them so they won't have to risk walking home; school principals have been known to have kids camp on school grounds and order in fish and chips rather than risk a field trip or cooking on a gas stove; the school swimming pool is almost a distant memory; concrete is fast disappearing from children's playgrounds and ACC offers 'falls prevention workshops' for caregivers of preschoolers to help parents prevent falls to young children around the home. Soon it'll be compulsory for all children to wear a helmet as they go about the normal course of their lives :!:
Yet... all this coddling and protecting and preventing having become so dangerously ingrained (will such children have any physical skills at all as they reach adulthood?), we have some Christchurch schools holding 'Fear Factor' competitions in which children are eating raw offal??!! :shock: and food poisoning rates are said to be soaring... WTF?
Where is the real education? What about the lessons in food handling and avoiding food related illness?
Apparently the incidence of food poisoning has risen sharply in recent years. Is it any wonder? :-s
Related Links:
Raw offal contests make pupils sick
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10349069
Campaign Organisers Say “Kids Don’t Bounce”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0510/S00010.htm
Food Poisoning - Campylobacter - The Facts
http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/main.asp?svid=149&svaid=251&svapid=706
Schools now organise 'walk to school days' - children who walk to school get a certificate at the gate; Mystery Caught Walking/Cycling Days - the child gets a prize at assembly...
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/SafeRoutes/resources.asp |
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Hieronymous Bosch
Joined: 09 Jun 2005
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Location: Christchurch
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:15 pm Post Subject: |
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good one mel,
maybe it's part of the educational elite's social engineering. preparing the way for our children to do as their told... even in the most illogical or unhealthy of circumstances.. guess that would engender the adults of the future to finally turn off that "little voice of reason" when they finally throw down the gauntlet and side with the enemy of god and man. |
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Melody Anderson
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:34 pm Post Subject: |
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Why not hold a real Fear Factor competition and have the kids walk home unsupervised? :P :P
Shock, horror, gasp!! :shock: |
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Azimuth
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:00 pm Post Subject: |
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Mel,
| Melody Anderson wrote: | | Why not hold a real Fear Factor competition and have the kids walk home unsupervised? :P :P: |
That really is very funny indeed <clap>
Regards
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Hieronymous Bosch
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Location: Christchurch
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:11 am Post Subject: |
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| Melody Anderson wrote: | Why not hold a real Fear Factor competition and have the kids walk home unsupervised? :P :P
Shock, horror, gasp!! :shock: |
:lol:
what is not funny though, is my reading in the christchurch press yesterday that the group responsible was a "baptist youth group" that appears to organize school activities for numerous schools down here. oy vay. one wonders what a mongrel mob youth group would have the kids do? (probably walk home unsupervised) :lol: |
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Melody Anderson
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:09 pm Post Subject: |
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| Hieronymous Bosch wrote: | | what is not funny though, is my reading in the christchurch press yesterday that the group responsible was a "baptist youth group" that appears to organize school activities for numerous schools down here |
Aw c'mon Hiero... surely wolfing down raw offal is just good, clean, christian fun! 8) |
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Azimuth
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:02 pm Post Subject: |
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| Melody Anderson wrote: | | wolfing down raw .................. christians...... |
Lions, lions.........did someone say lions...............where............where..........oh heck............... :idea: now to out run the kids. [-o<
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