I’m not going to crap on my fellow NZers for wanting a Big Mac or KFC

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Martyn Bradbury
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I’m not interested in your struggles to work from home, I’m concerned with those who don’t have that luxury, and ‪I’m refusing to shit on my fellow NZers who are celebrating the end of this cursed plague lockdown with a Big Mac or KFC.

We have all suffered uniquely from this collective lockdown & if that is your joy, that is your joy‬

‪For me, I haven’t seen my daughter in 24 days – that ends tomorrow – and that will be my joy from this dreadful virus.

Enjoy this moment comrades, and we can get back to tone policing and criticising each other next week.

 

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17 COMMENTS

    • NZ’s $3.1 billion dollar fast-food ‘addiction’ industry costs $1 billion in Health Care.

      Fatest Country
      1. Mexico
      2. USA
      3. NZ

      • Good fresh leafy greens, brassicas, fruit and spuds or rice will do me. A variety of veges and soups are slow food but it is wonderful they are available.
        Eating at home is the Kiwi way but breaking out is fun too.
        Fried tucker soaked with fat or oils is definitely not for me.
        I’m addicted to good plain food and may need help Lol.

  2. Thanks for this and your other thoughts and reflections. Best wishes for a joyous reunion tomorrow.

  3. Bomber 24 days is a lifetime with a small child.

    Thanks for keeping going and contributing the last few weeks.

    Noho pai stay well.

  4. Martyn said “‪For me, I haven’t seen my daughter in 24 days – that ends tomorrow – and that will be my joy from this dreadful virus.”

    Well said Martyn I feel tour pain there as a daughter father bond is strong as it was when I took care of my daughter during my thirties it was the best time of my life.

    We wish your reunion with your daughter is a warm hearted day for you both.

    I miss my daughter now also.

  6. Exactly @ MB.
    Many AO/NZ people can only dream of having a car to drive-through for the deep fried fats and sugars that may end their lives prematurely while many more still can only dream of a car to live in.
    I think what you’re talking about is called ‘Nudge Theory’.
    Basicly, made possible by an all bought and paid for MSM commanded to say that people are thronging to McShit burgers etc which will mean that people will, indeed, throng to them once they read that others may be thronging too.
    It’s a con job. A head fuck. We’re being manipulated without us knowing.
    The Guardien.
    “Nudge theory is a poor substitute for hard science in matters of life or death. ”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/26/nudge-theory-is-a-poor-substitute-for-science-in-matters-of-life-or-death-coronavirus

  7. ” Many AO/NZ people can only dream of having a car to drive-through for the deep fried fats and sugars that may end their lives prematurely while many more still can only dream of a car to live in”

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    Ha ,… CB ,.. was thinking about those homeless and in vans and cars, those sleeping under the bridges as the weather grows colder…how have they coped under level 4 lockdown…Sooooo many people from all walks being affected…it really is mind boggling.

    Yeah , NZ’s got to change.

    This place has turned to shit under successive neo liberal govts, we need to tell them to take a hike.

  8. Sympathise, and agree, but can you explain why it was only 24 days and not the full 5 weeks? A bit puzzling.

  9. Yes support this

    Restaurant managers as essential skills
    https://croakingcassandra.com/2018/08/30/work-visas-for-shop-managers/

    and quickly it becomes this
    Restaurant Brands threatens employees to undermine union agreement and won’t answer question on use of wage subsidy – Unite Union

    “This morning the CEO Arif Khan replied saying they were too busy to consider our proposal and they would get back to us in a few weeks. This itself is a clear breach of their good faith obligations under employment law.

    They haven’t given any good reason why threatened re-structures or redundancies would be needed. RBL is not in any financial difficulty and have received nearly $22 million from taxpayers. Their share price has been steadily increasing because investors are picking that they will do very well as New Zealand comes out of lockdown (see https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12325862 ). Many of their competitors, especially smaller fast foods takeaway shops, will not be able to open under Level 3.”

    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2020/04/26/restaurant-brands-threatens-employees-to-undermine-union-agreement-and-wont-answer-question-on-use-of-wage-subsidy-unite-union/#comment-503069NZ

    to this!

    “The Body Mass Index (BMI) of New Zealanders is continuing to rise and on current trends, two million New Zealanders will be considered clinically obese by 2038 up from 1.1 million in 2015, new University of Otago research reveals.”

    “These results suggest that, in the New Zealand context, the forces behind the obesity epidemic have largely been contemporaneous (period) influences on BMI, such as greater availability and consumption of high-energy, low-nutrient foods and lower levels of physical activity across all cohorts, rather than cohort-specific factors,” the researchers state in their paper.

    “Altering or mitigating these environmental influences is therefore crucial to slow or reverse projected increases in population obesity.”

    https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago690496.html

    BYO – Saving lives by ending NZ’s obsession with poor food for 2 million people here and growing, is not shitting on NZer’s, ignoring the issue is shitting on our health system and the poor by supporting an industry that is killing people. And not just any people, Maori and Pacific Islanders, helped by unions and an industry that don’t seem to have Maori and Pacific Islanders health and wellbeing (or any one else) at heart.

    There is nothing wrong with fast food in moderation. But when it is a giant ponzi based on visa scams, underpaying people, enriching franchises owners at the expense of business owners with relentless expansion, and unhealthy food meet to expand obesity in NZ to 1 in 3 adults, and nobody says boo in government or media, in fact are constantly promoting the industry to expand further, something is wrong!

  11. The young guy interviewed on tv who had spent half a week’s family rent on 4 buckets of KFC as his first move after the lockdown sorted out a few priorities for me.

  12. No point crapping on your fellow NZers when Kai Maori and Aotearoa Kai Gatherers are doing a better job on Facebook.
    Only education is going to solve this fast food fetish, not woke moralising.

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