Where Australia leads New Zealand often follows, so you can expect this latest story to impact us Kiwis in the not too distant future.
Residents have been left outraged over a Perth council’s plans to launch a new policy aimed at reducing the amount of unhealthy food being sold from food trucks.
The City of Cockburn’s proposed policy will force food trucks at city-run events to restrict their products to a maximum of 30 per cent ‘red’ items, which contain a high rate of fat, salt or sugar.
The plan would put hot chips, meat pies and chocolate sprinkles on ice creams at risk.But residents are not happy with the plan, with many claiming it’s encroaching on their day-to-day lives.
msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/foodanddrink/hot-chips-and-sausage-rolls-at-risk-of-being-banned-from-food-trucks
[…] the council should ‘collect my rubbish, fix the roads and make sure the street lights work, other than that you have zero say in my life.’
[…] The document […] showed the council would dictate what foods adults and children will be able to buy from food vendors at council events.
[…] WA Mobile Food Vendors Association president, Craig Mauger, said the proposed policy was ‘discriminatory’ and councils should not be able to police what residents were eating.
‘This policy discriminates against food truck members who base their entire truck around a single dish,’ he said.
‘They might be a sweets vendor or only sell hot chips or pies – none of those will be able to apply.’
Basically, if your food truck doesn’t serve an appropriate amount of whatever the council deems healthy, then too bad, you won’t be able to operate in their fair city. This is a HUGE overreach by the council. This is the nanny state dictating what adults can and can’t eat.
In Auckland, Mayor Phil Goff was quite comfortable dictating which speakers the public could listen to in council-owned facilities, so you just know that he would have no problem at all copying Australia and dictating what people can eat at council events as well.