(Outrage followed when Mitt Romney-then Republican Presidential Candidate 2012- proposed cancelling Sesame Street as a means to ”save” money).
Today Dion and Nick discuss how politics whether local or international is invading other areas of human activity:
Last year, a Russian consumer watchdog agency shut down four McDonald’s restaurants in Moscow for alleged sanitary violations – a move seen by critics as a tit-for-tat sanctions war with the America.
(The infamous Sony Hack of late 2014 centred on a movie about the fictional assassination of the North Korean Dictator/Monarch).
In the same month, President Putin ordered an embargo on meat, poultry, fish, dairy and produce from the USA, Canada, Australia, Norway and the European Union in response to those countries’ economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
Back home in South Africa, members of the Congress of SA Students made a highly publicised political statement, by placing a pig’s head in the kosher section of Woolworth’s Sea Point branch in Cape Town, in protest of the retailer’s trade relationship with Israel.
Food, fast or otherwise, seems to be the new political weapon for diplomatic protest. The saying, “a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” might just need to be revised to, “a way to push through a political view, is via the drive through”.
(China’s well known firewall censors many of the news pieces and cultural/entertainment shows that the Chinese government deems ”damaging to national morale”).
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