This blinkered, rigid 'philosophical' idea that food shouldn't be played with is quite awful. It pains me to read the silly opinions of people whose minds have been captured by ideas with no rational basis. These are the 'can't' people. They are everywhere but tragically they abound in education. What reasonable explanation can a child comprehend about why it is bad to play with food? Bad to make play dough; bad to use eggs or flour to make sticky pastes from which you can then create all sorts of weird and wonderful structures; bad to use food colourings and vegetables to make fantastic wallpaper; bad to use macaroni to make colourful necklaces; bad to use carrots to make snowmen noses; bad to use icing sugar to depict snow on wintry painting - the list is endless. If they don't get a good reason they either get resentful and rebellious or just repeat the stupid one and so the stupidity stretches on .
I am not at one with the world today. Probably never have been and never will be. The thinking and actions of too many people just goes from bad to worse. I'm going out with my dogs. Their behaviour makes more sense to me than that of some supposedly intelligent human-beings.
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A few decades back, being polite to people with irrational views meant keeping your mouth shut and not pointing out the irrationality. Somehow, since then being polite to people with irrational views has come to mean accepting that irrational views are as valid as rational ones. As social changes go, this sucks a big one.
I got the impression reading the article that the banners didn't realise dough comes from wheat, which comes from the earth. Clay and shells were approved because they come from the earth.
Perhaps we shouldn't have been polite decades ago (per P' Milt above)and knocked the garbage on the head back then ~nip in bud
Peter
Never too late to mock the morons.
It’s not about food.
It's power seeking through superstition and intimidation.
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