Mother Lisa Taplin, 34, was told to bring "granary or wholemeal bread next time as it was better for the birds," reported the paper. "The fluorescent-vest clad official said giving ducks white bread was tantamount to feeding her two sons chips with every meal."
Taplin was enjoying a visit to the duck pond in her home town of Hailsham in East Sussex, with sons Luke, four, and Dylan, two, when she was ticked off by the park keeper. "He made me feel slightly guilty for leaving the ducks malnourished but also a bit angry at the crazy world we now live in," she told the Mail.
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