Acton summarised the results: “The main surprise was particle pollution in the fan areas around the stadium. For a spectator attending a full day of events, their daily exposure would be more than doubled.”
Particle pollution peaked before each stadium session, and reached a maximum just before the closing ceremony, when it was 10 times greater than other parts of the city.
The main source was not traffic but catering, which was dominantly fast-food that included burgers, hotdogs and stir-fries. Other research, including a study of the UK’s “eat out to help out” scheme, has shown particle pollution from catering and restaurants, mainly from frying.
You’re supposed to have a meat pie. With “meat” being all the information you’re getting.
Not if you go to watch a Forest Green Rovers game you aren’t – when Vile Ponce took over he turned them vegan.
After a few years in the Football League though, they are now back playing non-league football again, demonstrating that Karma is a bitch, and has a wicked sense of humour.
I don’t like getting that close to Stroud
The funny thing is that vegan food depends on lots of food being moved around.
About the most eco meal I could have is a bacon sandwich I can get flour from Hungerford, bacon from Bishopstone and butter from a farm I can walk to. Where is the nearest place to get rice and soya? I’m guessing Provence?
Reminds me of a visit to a Scottish village chippy some years ago. There were three items on the menu; fish supper, pie supper, and sausage supper. An enquiry into which variety of fish was being offered resulted in a blank stare and the eventual response “It’s just fish.”.
Bloke 1: ‘Don’t fancy yours much’.
Bloke 2: ‘Which one’s mine?’
Bloke 1: ‘The one who’s not afraid of a fish supper’.
But what will that leave to eat at that nutty vegan football ground the guy was thrown out of the other day?
Hardly “unexpected air pollution” you can smell the fat in the air.
There would also be similar “unexpected air pollution” wherever bacon is cooking.
No expensive survey needed.
It’s the smell that attracts the punters…
I worked for a summer at a food kiosk at the Pacfic National Exhibition. As the junior guy, my primary job was to chop onions. lots of onions. Of course, most of them went into hamburgers, hot dogs, and so on, but there was a good portion (maybe a third?) that went on the grill for the express purpose of creating the aroma of sizzling onions to entice the foot traffic. After they are all sizzled out (and a new batch of fresh onion is required) most of the remainder went in the bin.
Fun fact – peeling and chopping 50 or 60 pounds of onions in a shift (maybe more – I can’t recall the bag size – but three industial-size bags) gets onion juice on your hands and arms, and it soaks into your skin, so that you can’t even bring your hands up to your face. Makes eating (anything) a challenge.
I did that – the onion peeling thing – a long time ago. Les oignons were first immersed in a large tub of water. Can’t recall for how long, but probs for a an hour or two. Made all the diff.
Your manager had better technique than ours did!
Seen that done at Oulton Park when there was a crash on the corner. The burger van seller knows that there will be a 15 minute break in racing, that the fans will rush to the bend where the broken bike is to check the racers are ok as the medics take one away. “Quick cook, get the onions on” he orders.
Tim
They will be banning meat soon enough I imagine especially if the Green / Labour/ other Stalinist coalition wins in 2029
For fucks sake, Doc Joe is from Birmingham! Didn’t I read that he said all the bin men should be shot to get them back to work because 10,000 tons of shit on the pavements is causing a lot of cancer inducing particualtes in the air?
Oh, no I didn’t…
Food is harmful. The sun’s rays are harmful. The only attractive women are super-pale x-rays who don’t smile. So half the Parliamentary Labour Party then.
their daily exposure would be more than doubled
Oh my! All they way up to a millionth of a dangerous dose!
‘Particle pollution’ is a lie. Airborne particles are not a health threat to humans. Except for oak pollen. But ‘particle pollution’ sure sounds bad!
This is so much bullshit. And Guardian runs with it. They have no shame.
“Airborne particles are not a health threat to humans.”
They are if they are blue or brown asbestos.
We’re talking chicken smoke.
Exactly. Frying and grilling produce PM 2.5s and VOCs; but the evidence, AIUI – correct me if I’m wrong – is that those particulates and volatile organics cause no harm beyond temporary irritation – in some people.
This study rouses my suspicions. I do wonder who funded it. I seem to detect the influence of those authoritarian puritans who want to control what we eat – and would like to ban or restrict access to ‘prole food’ for “public health”.
Correct. Steve Milloy at junkscience.com blew up the PM2.5 BS years ago, but some are still trying to get some mileage out of it.
Here we have Dr Joe Acton from the University of Birmingham showing his arse. I assume he lives in a world where he can say any stupid thing he wants to and no one will notice. ‘Cept Guardian, which will publish his silliness.
Most of the health threat was from silicosis not asbestosis – the state-owned National Coal Board caused far more deaths and illnesses (scores of times more) than private-sector builders using asbestos.
I used to think that the silly cunts would push things so far that eventually people would wake up and do something, but regrettably I now think that they could ban chips and people will just grumble a bit and move on. I think they could even ban football and have the same effect.
Quite.
They’re de facto banning pubs, in slo-mo, just as the Fabians always do things, and yet do I see the smouldering ruin of parliament on the evening news?
No, by sodding Geo., I don’t think I do.
Lockdown taught us, if we did not already know it, that there is no amount of shit the people of this country will not swallow – especially if it’s parcelled in a chip wrapper of Blitz spirit (so described by cunts in places like Westminster) – and think they’re virtuous for doing so.
#Britons shall be slaves.
Alas!! We Aussies of British descent seem just the same.
Of course once the Muzzies take over, they’ll adhere to a different brand of bullshit!!
Oh? I thought they were measuring consequential farts.