TELEGRAPH:New figures from the fresh produce organisation Freshfel Europe reveal British consumers ate 1% more fruit in 2008 compared with the previous five-year average but vegetable consumption plummeted by 11 per cent, The Grocer reported.
Overall European fruit consumption fell 1 per cent in that period, with vegetable consumption dropping by 14 per cent.
Europeans ate an average of 439lb (199kg) of fruit and vegetables per person in 2008, an 8 per cent drop.
The figures follow several years of Government-promoted healthy eating campaigns including 5-a-day, Change4Life and the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme.
The Department of Health has spent £3.3 million on the 5-a-day campaign alone in the past four years, a spokeswoman told the trade magazine.
Today's figures follow a study released earlier this week casting doubt on the cancer-preventing benefits of eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
THIS NANNYSTATE BS IS A TERRIBLE TRIFECTA:
- THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS TELLING US WHAT TO EAT.
- IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY WHEN THEY DO.
- IT'S OUR TAX MONEY SPENT TO AID THE PATRONS OF THE POLITICIANS.
LEFT-WING NANNYSTATERS NEED TO BE SPANKED - AND THEY WILL BE THIS SPRING IN BRITAIN AND THIS FALL IN THE USA!
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