Posted on 03/19/2009 11:07:15 AM PDT by mainestategop
Gordon Ramsay is known for his militaristic approach in the kitchen to motivate contestants on his Hell's Kitchen reality competition series, and the foul-mouthed British chef apparently believes lawmakers should be just as tough on the parents of obese children.
"If kids become obese and out of control, then seriously fine the parents and threaten them with a court appearance because they often don't realize what they are doing," said Ramsay during an interview with Men's Health magazine, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. "If you're going to be a healthy nation then you've got to discipline the parents for having no control."
In addition to the health risks associated with obesity, Ramsay said heftier children also endure psychological suffering at the hands of other youth.
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Fans of Fox's Hell's Kitchen shouldn't be surprised to learn that Ramsay also advocated frightening children about the dangers of unhealthy eating as a way for parents to educate them on the importance of taking proper care of their bodies.
"That documentary, Super Size Me, scares the hell out of my children," he told Men's Health. "And you have to scare them like that to make them understand it's not good for you."
Meet the Nanny Chef, Gordon Ramsay, the anti-carbon print kitchenmaster.
Personally, I don't like British Chef Ramsay's two successful FOX reality shows, "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares." He's overly abusive with his quick temper, and takes the Simon Cowell schtick too far.
But what I really don't like is how he's now trying to use government power to impose his idiosyncracies and politics on other chefs. Oh, and he doesn't practice what he's trying to get government to do to his kitchen colleagues across Britain Ramsay wants the British government to fine chefs who don't use his politically correct choice of produce and ingredients--so-called "local ingredients." It's the latest rage across America, too: You're supposed to help your community and reduce the carbon footprint (in terms of packaging and delivery fuel costs to import the food) by only buying local ingredients and only when they're in season.
Yet, while Ramsay wants others to do this, he himself doesn't practice what he preaches. And that's in addition to his nanny state approaches results--putting poor farmers in the Third World out of business. I'm all for buying American and supporting your local economy, and I try to buy products made and ingredients produced in America to support our economy. But that's a choice, and that's the way it should be--not a government mandate. What Ramsay is trying to do in British kitchens and haute cuisine is haute statism:
Britain's most-decorated chef - he has been awarded 12 Michelin stars - demanded the Government outlaw all out-of-season food from every restaurant in Britain. By making his comments, the chef, author and television presenter was laying down a marker of his personal food philosophy. But he also risked accusations of hypocrisy because he fails quite brazenly to practise what he preaches in his own restaurants, which serve food from thousands of miles away.
Making a call for legislation on Radio 5 Live, Ramsay said: "There should be stringent laws - licensing laws - to make sure produce is only used in season.
"The quicker we get legislation pushed through the Houses of Parliament, the more unique this country will become in terms of its sourcing and level of inspiration. Chefs should be fined if they haven't got ingredients in season on the menu."
Again, at Ramsay's restaurants all over the world (including in New York and the Mid-East), he regularly imports ingredients from all over the world. Do as Chef Ramsay says, not as he does.
And it's interesting that Ramsay is concerned with the carbon footprint when--to film his two reality shows in America--he constantly flies himself and production staff all over America, and then constantly flies back home to Britain. That's a lot of fuel wasted, more than was used to make your non-local-ingredients gourmet meal.
Hmmm . . . I think we see what the real "Hell's Kitchen" looks like. It's not the one hosted by Ramsay on FOX. It's the one hosted by Ramsay and the British Government in the UK.
Time to deport this alien chef away from America's kitchens. Gordon Ramsay's politics and hypocritical statist goals are a recipe for disaster. Keep them off America's menu.
Exit question: What's the carbon footprint for production, sale, and delivery of these many Gordon Ramsay products?
Hard to say, but it surely rivals the cash footprint left in Ramsay's bank account. That's the only real green Chef Ramsay really cares about.
So who gets to decide what is or what is not healthy? How the hell are these idiots going to decide? I remember growing up government told us to eat low fat high carbohydrates, well that didn’t work! Obesity went up big time! What the hell makes this idiot think that its going to help again!?
that idiot has spent too much of his “life” bossing little girls around in the kitchen...
I’m genuinely surprised no one hasn’t buried a knife in this guy.
Ramsey is a bleep idiot bleep bleep loud mouth
I don’t care WHO he is, if he talked/acted towards ME the way he does towards his hapless victims/contestants on his “reality” show, he’d be swallowing some or all of his teeth.
Regarding his idea of “punishing parents of obese children” he should be told to go pi$$ up a rope, and mind his own business, before someone seriously HURTS him.
All in all, he appears to be one serious waste of human flesh.
I have been in the food industry for years. I have worked with too many Gordon Ramsays in my day. Loud mouth bullies pretending to be chefs.
Where does a Brit get off telling anyone about fine cuisine? From the country that gave the world kidney pie and bangers and mash.
Guy was almost killed by puffins in Iceland and was almost blinded by another chef in a cooking school. This guy needs some serious medication.
Ramsay’s ego knows no bounds. You’re a chef Ramsay. You cook food. The self-importance of a jerk like this is really intolerable. I wonder how often he mouths off the the wrong guy and gets his butt kicked.
The guy has several michilen stars under his belt and is worth millions. He also has several fancy restaurants all over the world.
This would make a certain amount of sense if the government wsn’t simultaneously forcing children into government-run schools, where parents have no control over what the children eat all day. If they’d get the food supply in the schools under control, including prohibiting children from sharing food brought from home with other children, then I think it would be perfectly appropriate to cut off the government health care benefits of the parents. You can’t have the parents actively racking up a replacement generation who will be outrageously expensive for the NHS (which shouldn’t exist, but it does), and not “charge” them for this action.
It’s a big problem in the US too, where much of the country is on some sort of taxpayer-funded healthcare program, and private insurance is so heavily regulated that it’s not allowed to refuse or cancel policies for people who are obese. People who live responsibly, taking proper care of their own health and their children’s health, end up getting stuck with the huge bill for those who don’t.
If food is bad, he’s a pusher.
Because they are smarter than you AND they "care:...
Government tells us how to take care of the poor, we have a bloated welfare system that takes money from those who work and gives it to those who wont work while reneging on those who want to work or are incapable of working due to disability.
Government wants to take care of those who can't care for themselves who are mentally challenged severely mentally ill ETC. they end up putting them in institutions where they are abused and tormented. Sometimes they like to use them to lock up people they don't like such as politicals and those who are politically incorrect.
Government monopolizes guns, we have higher gun homicides, disarmed victims and criminals running around with more hand guns.
Chef Crank mcnutty now thinks government is capable of telling us what we can or can't eat. Dreadful...
Sometimes people are fat due to genetics or health conditions. Also some medications cause weight gain.
And being a nib-nosed, statist, anti-liberty zealot could subject him to being kicked in the ass by people who are smart enough to decide that they'll have none of what he's selling.
The carbon footprint nonsense set aside, Gordon Ramsey is just parroting Chef Marco Pierre White’s mantra about locally produced foods. And it’s having an effect in Britain especially after Marco hosted Hell’s Kitchen and the Great British Feast. The Restaurant’s focus, also on locally produced products, has spread it to yet another audience. Local producers (and employees) are feeling the impact of these changes, and they’re finding customers for their products instead of going out of business.
Anyway, back to the topic of the post: Holding parents accountable for their children is admirable, but it should be the community, not the arm of government, which does it. Only the common man doesn’t know if they can do that anymore - after all, isn’t it a hate crime to demand parents care for their children?
The nanny state expands..
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