People will moan about anything. Feeding ducks white bread is bad for them as stated in that link by the Council's vet. It sounds to me like the lady in question did not like being told, so moaned about it.
From that article
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She said: “There were loads of ducks around us and they looked quite hungry.
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What does a hungry duck look like? Do they walk around rubbing their bellies with a sad look on their faces?
It sounds like he was polite from this
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“Then a man in a fluorescent waistcoat who was holding a litter pick-up stick came over to me and said ‘I know you mean well but giving them white bread is not good for them’.”
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And the explanation from the Council is fair enough as well
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Nickey Caria, deputy town clerk at Hailsham Town Council, said the official was merely passing on advice they had received from vets.
He said: “We have been advised by an animal rescue centre here that the public should be urged not to feed wild birds white bread as it is bad for them.
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Then we get this daft person interfering
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Josie Appleton, of civil liberties campaign group the Manifesto Club, said: “It is amazing that health fascism extends to the digestive system of ducks.
“We need to rein in the powers of fluorescent-jacketed busy-bodies.” Naturalist Chris Packham, presenter off the BBC’s Autumn Watch, said: “I wouldn’t stop anyone from feeding birds. We send out the message that wildlife needs our help all the time so it seems a bit churlish to tell people what food to use.”
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Its got nothing to do with "health fascism" and everything to do with the ducks health.