Foodwitchery!

We’d be remiss in our foodographical studies if we didn’t link to this spectacular diss of everyone’s favourite Scots oat-eater Gillian McKeith by Bad Science guru Ben Goldacre. If you’re looking for some reasons why the healthy eating ‘industry’ is way out of whack, this is a very good way to start.

By the way, the You Are What You Eat cereal bars taste pretty good, especially the citrus ones. The list of ingredients doesn’t obviously mark them out as healthier than the competition, though. See? That’s unbiased journalism, or blogalism, or whatever.

Ish.

Update: We heard better.

Well, okay, we heard different. Now it seems that the meat Bernard Matthews imported from Hungary could be to blame. The beeb are now saying that nobody knows how chicken AIDS made it to our shores. Could it be the Hungarian Mystery Meat? Or the Rogue Woodpigeon Through the Airduct? Or Reverend Green with the Spanner in the Closet? Who knows? Not us!

So the, uh, new verdict is – legally Bernard seems to be covered. But legal won’t stop you dying from bird flu. But there’s no risk. But there might be. But there probably isn’t. Aarrgh!