TORONTO – Police and educators say that parents aren’t educating their children enough about internet use, and warn that a growing number of young people are using the internet to search for recipes that contain gluten.
“I thought my daughter was just using her tablet for videos and games,” said local mother Darla Craig. “But one day I checked her search history and was shocked to find that she’d been looking at recipes that included wheat, barley, and worst of all, kamut.”
Craig says that was when she installed parental-control software blocking the Canadian Wheat Board’s website, along with its salacious photographs of Red Fife wheat kernels.
“A lot of parents don’t know who their kids are talking to on social media,” said Sergeant George Banks, with the Toronto Police Service. “The reality is, there are sick people out there who will send your kids recipes for pasta dishes, and ask your kids to send them their recipes.”
This advice comes on the heels of several tragic news stories this year, where young people were cyber-bullied into eating gluten foods, which raised the level of bad toxins in their bodies.
“Sure, when we were kids, we’d sneak off and eat some whole wheat, but the stuff is way stronger nowadays,” said teacher Linda Harlends. “And just a few too many sweet nugs of farro, the next thing you know is, you’re mainlining dairy.”
