This Week in Bacon

Posted by Baylen on Nov. 14, 2008

Jamie_s Ministry of Food - Learn to Cook & Pass it On - Jamie Oliver-1.jpgEngland for English snouts! That’s the message the utterly horrid Jamie Oliver is communicating, saying he likes his bacon best when it’s not all foreign and stuff.

…Oliver will go to war with European pork producers in a new television show.

In Jamie Saves Our Bacon, the campaigner will fight for British pork farmers who are being hit by cheap imports.

He said: “Seventy per cent of the pork we import is from countries with lower welfare standards than ours and would have been illegal to produce here.”

More here. Reminds me of the racist BBC presenter who was fired this week because she didn’t want her daughter to have to ride in a taxicab with some “guy with a turban on.” Nice.

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  • Hi. I have to disagree with you on this one. I don't see how Oliver supporting locally produced food makes him racist like the radio host. Britain is a nanny state by way of government policies like their ridiculous knife-crime laws, not because of celebrities promoting knowing where your food comes from.

    Cheers
  • If what you describe is all Oliver was doing, I wouldn't be opposed. But he's trying "fight for British pork farmers who are being hit by cheap imports," and he says pork raised elsewhere is done so under "illegal" conditions. This always precedes protectionist legislation--whether it be banning country X imports altogether or forcing country X to bring its standards up to those in Britain. Either way, that's bad for consumers.
  • trubbles
    Shouldn't national standards mean something? What if Oliver initiated a campaign to ban, say, milk that includes more melamine than the FDA allows? The fact that most of that milk comes from China would be neither racist nor protectionist; it's just good sense. I love your blog, but your visceral hatred of all things Oliver is off-putting.
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