The Irwins

Cake schmake. Just shut up and pass the eggs!

Bindi being interviewed on the red carpet at High School Musical.

Dave Penberthy’s musings about Rosemary Stanton’s rant on the evil of packet cake mixture being pushed by Bindi Irwin and her family on televisions across Australia is off the mark.

The point that worries me doesn’t involve cakes, but Bindi’s “childhood”. Bindi Irwin and her brother spend much of their lives being home schooled, they mix and play with the children of employees of Australia Zoo, not children of diverse backgrounds through exposure to the usual forms of community education and socialisation. 

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  • Leah says:

    04:53pm | 21/09/10

    Honestly, if you want to worry about child stars, I think Bindi is the least of our worries. When I was a kid I really didn’t meet that many kids from “diverse backgrounds” at my local public school. Actually, throughout her travels, she’s probably met a more diverse bunch of… Read more »

  • Isobel says:

    04:55pm | 17/07/09

    To tell you the truth, the whole Irwin child-star thing doesn’t bother me.  I think their childhood would be a hell of a lot better than many other Australian children who live with poverty, neglect, abuse, illness etc.  I don’t mind a few good child role models around, especially if… Read more »

 

I have always had a fair deal of respect for nutritionist Rosemary Stanton but realised yesterday that this is only because I haven’t been paying attention.

Healthy option: Iguanas contain less sugar than a traditional chocolate cake.

Not sure if the rest of you caught it, but Mrs Stanton has launched a pretty out-there tirade against Bindy Irwin’s new commercial deal as the public face of a particularly sinister company.

Not Union Carbide or Exxon or British Aerospace but the baking products conglomerate Greens General Foods, one of the shadiest players in the evil cake trade.

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  • Shoshana Young says:

    05:55pm | 31/08/10

    BTW somebody spelled Bindi’s name wrong!!  Read more »

  • Shelley says:

    10:27am | 18/06/10

    We have gotten way off track here - Rosemary stanton is right, how could you disagree with the rising obesity, chemicals in food and some are banned in other countries and can cause reactions like headaches and worsening of asthma and children looking up to Bindi and thinking that its… Read more »

 

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