TVO, the Ontario government’s television channel, has dropped a tweet promoting its partnership with Dairy Farmers of Ontario to deliver education programs for school children.
On the weekend it said its partnership would bring educational activities and resources to Ontario parents, teachers, and students with topics ranging from food and nutrition to food regulations and more!”
By Monday evening, the tweet was deleted, reports Toronto Star’s Jessica Scott Reid, with TVO vaguely citing “unhealthy discourse” in the responses.
“It appears a lot of people weren’t pleased to learn that a lobby group is being given access to children in order to sell a product under the guise of education, especially a product as problematic as dairy,” she wrote.
Actually, this is only the tip of an iceberg. All kinds of lobby groups offer "education" materials to schools and teachers, including pesticide manufacturers and many farm organizations.
Some call it great education. Others call it brainwashing.
