This just in from Alternet. It's bleak reading for the festive season.

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Posted on 3 December, 2007 - 04:16

The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) have come out with some useful research on the nation’s health, and food poverty. The message from the media seems to be this: ‘the poor don’t have it as bad as we thought’.

To some extent this is a welcome message – it goes some way to countering the national sport, as British as cricket, of heaping contempt on poor people (though I suspect that it’ll take a little more than this report to make the practice disappear completely).

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Posted on 17 July, 2007 - 18:39