Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It always strikes me as obscene the fact that one of the biggest killers in the developed world will be obesity and one of the biggest killers in the underdeveloped world will be lack of food and clean water.

We have been obsessed with food. Alan Shortt once said that when he watched television at night, after putting down the remote control, he felt like licking his fingers because there were so many food programmes on television. The media has a part to play in our obsession with food and the eating habits of the nation.