To the editor,
The use of trigger warnings has its place, on the news before a car accident report or with cultural concerns, but surely not with food menus.
It is becoming common for food menus to include all ingredients which can be life saving but the calorie count shouldn’t be considered a trigger for anxiety.
Most people know that it if it looks good and tastes nice it’s probably bad for you, although there are more precise scientific definitions.
Is the world becoming too soft or too hard? But surely we have to live in it, and its complexities,
Mental health issues including food usage must be addressed properly but they shouldn’t stop other people from having access to accurate information so that they can making sensible eating choices.
The concerns of a few shouldn’t outweigh the safety of the majority.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
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