Fish and chips banned from New Zealand books
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Wellington - Some New Zealand publishers have banned references to fish and chips in modern children's stories,author Don Long said on Monday. "There's quite an issue at the moment about healthy food in schools," he told Radio New Zealand. "Some publishers have misinterpreted sensitivity around that to put a blanket ban on any mention of things like fish and chips in resources that go out to schools." Long said that completely misinterpreted what the Ministry of Education wanted, "which is for kids to seriously look at the whole issues of healthy foods and so on." He said it was an example of unofficial censorship in the New Zealand publishing world.
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Pathetic Publishing!
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Ian Toimata ,
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:19:46 GMT
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how sad! How many publishers and ministry of education workers enjoyed a good whack of fish and chips over the summer? Most I bet!
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