http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56608 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 19:28:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56608#post-163745 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:48:30 +0000 Tripod 163745@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>“The new scheme is both refreshingly simple and brutally honest”, announced Sebastian Wright, a spokesman for the Food Standards Agency. “The 'traffic light' idea - red, amber and green - reflecting levels of salt, sugar and fats in our processed foods, was a source of bafflement to shoppers. So we’ve gone instead for what we think, given the current state of the food industry, are more appropriate colours. </p> <p>“Ready meals in brown packaging are ‘shit’, while yellow labels, for canned and bottled beers, suggests that what you’re drinking is ‘piss’. There's no need for any other colours. If customers get the impression they’ve been shat and pissed on from a great height, by every broken link in the food chain, then the work of the FSA has not been in vain”... </p>