Eating Healthily A Rant Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Eating Healthily.

So many claims are spurious,
misleading and injurious
A fact which makes me furious.
I find it rather curious.

Food manufacturers can imply.
Indeed they are allowed to lie
about the food they hope you buy.
Again I often wonder why

the powers that be chose to ignore
the lies told by each superstore
to convince us less is more.
Surely by now they know the score.

Increasing profits is their aim
these greedy firms are all the same.
The view customers as fair game,
don’t have to prove the facts they claim.

They add more salt and sugar too
and add an extra pound or two.
For food they say is good for you.
A claim that’s very seldom true.

Convenience food s which they display
do not conform in any way.
To what their lying labels say.
But they’re allowed to get away

with lying to increase their sales.
It seems that legislation fails
to curb their fancy fairy tales.
The greed for profit still prevails.

11-Jan-08