A British anti-knife drive comes home to roost

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Fried chicken and anti-knife crime messaging have not proved a winning combination

up from your two-piece and chips, you can set your watch to the rhythm of the fried-chicken shop. Noon brings school kids wolfing down a few wings. At 3pm come the pram-pushers, searching for an affordable dinner. Then it’s the end-of-school crush, commuters home from work and finally the drunk, craving stodge to soak up the booze.

Yet focusing on chicken shops is not completely bird-brained. The Home Office insists that its marketing campaign—which launched last year and has also run at music festivals and in community centres—is aimed at ten- to 21-year-olds of any ethnicity. If so, it is not hard to see why such joints were picked. Shift, a charity, found fried chicken was the most popular fast food for young people in Newham, a London borough.

 

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Bloody hell...tea kettle

sarcasm or sadistic marketing ?

patel4witham Agree

People who love fried chicken are more likely to be involved in knife crime.

It suggested blacks, knives and fried chicken were linked. Elites prefer to hide from truth

You really need to hire real journalists...

There's more logic to funding youth work, youth centres and variating the pathways into higher education, probably at a similar cost.

It depends on the planner’s thought.

buy chicken must stab someone. Logic really.

What is that?

so all those health warnings on alcohol and cigs are racist too

Knife crime is same dynamic as gun crime in US, disenfranchised and/or gang related. Social/economic structural policy needs a good looking at.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was being chased by a kid with a zombie knife.

There's logic. Tad bit racist but still logic.

More info.👀

Neoliberalism, baby.

They have got to start from somewhere 🙂. It's a step in the right direction

Why not?

--- Hmmmm ! ? ! ? ---- Knives Don't Kill People . . . .

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