The Telegraph’s ill-timed promotion of fasting was in really poor taste
From April 2021 to March 2022, the Trussell Trust delivered more than 2.2 million food parcels. Food bank use is at an unprecedented level, with many who go to them being the working poor, due to the failure of wages to keep up with the cost of living.
The fifth largest economy in the world pic.twitter.com/gvrhfMXPOO
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) August 14, 2022
It was, therefore, particularly bad timing of the Telegraph to publish this article about intermittent fasting – an increasingly popular weight-control method.
People were furious at the terrible optics – and the implications of trying to normalise hunger.
1.
GET IN THE FUCKING BIN. I’m too angry about this to even be polite about it. Hunger is not a virtue, it’s a distress signal of extreme deprivation. pic.twitter.com/FMV13zFdHD
— Jack Monroe ️⚧️️ (@BootstrapCook) August 18, 2022
2.
‘Fasting’ is a choice, starvation is not @TelegraphLife
An example why working class people are saying #EnoughIsEnough #HungerIsAPoliticalChoice #RightToFood pic.twitter.com/72XEMKWcz6
— lan Byrne MP (@IanByrneMP) August 18, 2022
3.
Wow. Some next-level ninja sociopathy there from the consistently-awful Telegraph.. https://t.co/OdXkXZ1Arp
— Shaun Keaveny (@shaunwkeaveny) August 19, 2022
4.
Don’t think of it as being cold and hungry, folks, it’s just “giving your bodies a break from food” and it’s nothing to be afraid of. In fact, you’ll live longer. #voteTory https://t.co/d07mQstrWX
— Messer Best (@MesserBest) August 17, 2022
5.
unbefuckinglievable pic.twitter.com/9Y908SxxXs
— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) August 18, 2022
6.
It's not 'fasting' when you've no choice but to skip meals, you absolute monsters https://t.co/kRROLXcVA8
— badly-drawn bee (@soapachu) August 17, 2022
7.
Next week we look at how shivering in the dark could add years to your life https://t.co/Yo3Innr2h4
— Rich Neville (@RichNeville) August 17, 2022
8.
The Telegraph, 2016: sunlit uplands ahoy
The Telegraph, 2022: we could all do with some starvation https://t.co/maYU7HZSNQ— Dli O’Doir (@dli_odoir) August 16, 2022
9.
Commissioning editor: People can't afford to heat and eat. Let's turn that into a positive lifestyle feature.
Telegraph peons: We're right on it! https://t.co/HEA783gp0j
— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) August 17, 2022
10.
A Torygraph-sponsored Workhouse Overseer when you ask for a second mouldy crust of bread in 2025: https://t.co/rFSyMLzjlq pic.twitter.com/mJWQ4OyJ7u
— Luke✊or Trans Rights Are Human Rights & ACAB (@Lukeaqueer) August 17, 2022
11.
The desperation of the right wing press to defend Tory economic mismanagement sinks to a new, grotesque, low.
Of course, the @Telegraph readership demographic is very much not part of the British population that will be forced into "feeling the odd hunger pang" aka starvation. https://t.co/Ht6XhExgVZ
— Incorrigible FCA (@ImIncorrigible) August 18, 2022
12.
LATEST: Sewage counts as 1 of your 5 a day. https://t.co/lkpc5MfB0u
— Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog (@fireball2512) August 17, 2022
13.
capitalism is working overtime trying to turn food poverty in an economic crisis into a fun & trendy new diet.
dystopia. we are living in a dystopia. https://t.co/Q8Jo3xYO7e
— alison bernabe (@ALILBERNABE) August 17, 2022
To sum up –
Its all going really well in the UK at the moment pic.twitter.com/PXpuSsYBmQ
— (@Devon_OnEarth) August 18, 2022
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