New Zealand Conservative

An interesting story of how Christian Fundamentalism sets out to save people from the bowels of evil, and the moment money becomes the by-product, suddenly every-one gets in on some cereal and serious profiteering. There's a lesson there somewhere, but the story is interesting on many levels More than a century ago, Christian fundamentalists invented cereal to promote a healthy lifestyle free of sin. Little did they know, their creation would eventually be used to promote everything from radio and cartoons to Mr. T and tooth decay. Story at Mentalfloss Note, this cereal killer video is violent. Definitely only for 14 to 18 year olds* *So why am I not surprised my younger son has already seen it?

Last week I reported on a whine by one Robyn Toomath about KFC's latest offering. Well she's back at it again, this time because KFC have added grilled chicken to the menu, thus reducing fat content. She should be pleased - but no Fight the Obesity Epidemic spokeswoman Dr Robyn Toomath said, while she applauded the food industry whenever they replaced unhealthy options, she questioned whether KFC was really motivated by offering healthy options to customers. "What they're doing is attracting a bigger market share so that they've got the same number of people eating the unhealthy option plus a new cohort of customers who wouldn't be previously attracted to the restaurant - that's counter-productive." Counter-productive? No - any business in the real world, needs to keep and preferably expand its customer base in order to survive. If they don't then their employees loose their jobs and go to bed hungry. And that is what motivates them. I...

Mr Key said he thought Tuhoe would get the joke, but it appears they were not amused. Of course they are not amused , he didn't finish with a down trou and a baring of his bum cheeks in their general direction, or taking the Maori flag and shooting it, or offering huge sums of compensation for historical satirical moments. Some good advice for Tuhoe - respect the Pakeha's ability to be irreverent. It's a cultural thing chaps. Dr McAnulty said people should not eat raw slugs or snails and should ensure they wash their hands after touching them. Fair enough. It wasn't on my list of likely activities, but obviously, some people need to be told .

The 90 year old trade war to sell Apples to the Aussies is over. "We won, you lost. Eat that" as Cullen might say. Except they still might not bother eating them. We now supposedly will be able to sell Apples to Aussies, but they might never get around to buying them. I wait to see if we are pipped at the post. And Ozy Mandias weighs in with a thoughtful post and highlights a new risk: I have had the pleasure of going to Aussie about 5 times and would have to say the average Australian is funny, friendly and generally a good bloke. Trouble is that during any of my visits there I have yet to find an average Aussie. Basically their country is like our big brother – loud, arrogant but there if we get into a little trouble. Deep down my real concern is that it won’t take them long to claim our apples as their own. As New Zealanders we are constantly being ripped off by our neighbours as year after year they take our best and claim it for themselves. From racehorses to foo...

MacDonalds, a company that comes in for criticism for many things, mostly for supposedly making us fat, is in the paper today for seemingly selling a burger with a maggot . Me, I'm skeptical as is DPF . In the US food contamination cases can be lucrative which is why we saw the finger in the chilli case a few years back and the rat in the lunchbox case earlier this year. But in New Zealand no real money is going to change hands there are still axes to grind and healthy skepticism goes out the window. People will believe the worst if it suits their agenda and propagate the story as the Herald has done in this case. Its anti-capitalism and tall poppy syndrome at its finest on display folks.