GREEN FOODS FAIL OLYMPICS
Thanks again to Viv Forbes for his summary of the woeful diet fed to our athletes in Paris. Our obsession with “being green” is infecting our food choices with lunacy, just as is our obsession with “renewables”. Athletes had to arrange for some high protein animal foods to be brought in. Signs of the Times. All might change with the news of Israel’s attack on Hezbollah…….that could be a cause for heartburn. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Green Foods Fail Olympics By Viv Forbes The first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favour their “climate-friendly” diet of things like avocados on toast plus almond-milk coffee. The athletes demanded more meat and eggs. Paris Olympics CEO, Etienne Thobois, told reporters they suddenly needed more animal protein, causing them to order “700 kilos of eggs and a ton of meat, to meet the demands of the athletes.” The Olympic caterers should have read a bit of French history – Vikings brought cattle to Normandy in the 10th century and valued them for both meat and milk. The Paris organisers could also have also looked at some French cave paintings, such as the one in Lascaux, which depict aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle, being attacked by ancient hunters. Image by Klaus Hausmann from PixabayHunting for Meat in the Stone Age The Normans took their love of beef to Britain. In 1611 King James knighted his loin roast so it could be worthy item on a King’s table – since then it has been known as “sirloin”. That old enemy of Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, knew that his army could not survive without beef. Britain is famous for great beef breeds such as Herefords, Angus, Scotch, Welsh and Orkney beef. So the Duke’s red coat…