Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#1
The cost of basic food is rising at an alarming rate. Once upon a time the essentials were cheap or fairly cheap...bread, milk, eggs, and so on, but now they have doubled in price in near record time. Arent we all in effect paying for the whims of the well off middle classes, those with far too much dosh in their pockets, getting snooty and sniffy about how chickens are rared, or getting all suburban cul-de-sacy about the organic state of the humble carrot...and worrying unduly, and whats worse, making the rest of us worry, about the so called state of the planet.
Where once we didnt give a stuff about chickens as long as we got our eggs cheap, we got 'em regular, and we got 'em smiling sunny side up...now we are all riddled with guilt every time we dip our soggy soldiers in that lovely yellow yoke.
The scientist bods have told us there are no health advantages in organic so are we all paying extra for nothing. No advantages.
The organic movement is a bit of a laugh isnt it, flying organic produce thousands of miles around the globe by heavily polluting intercontinental jets and they still call the flowers or the bananas or whathaveyou organic when it arrives on the shelf. People then have to pay more for this fancy dan stuff...where you can get the humble local tulip without the organic price tag attached, but I guess its not good enough any more.
I'll just add this bit...remember there is 1000,000,000 (thats a 1000million to the math dyslexix) Chinese who eat what they like when they like, they couldnt give a rats ass about global warming, so what chance you and me making a difference in that global tide of apathy. Not much.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
that is right about china(and india) too, why should they give up their new found wealth because others have had an industrial society for two centuries?
i sometimes wonder about the organic tag.
it used to be the colour green that made items more expensive.
i know a hungarian chap whose brother runs an "organic farm" just outside budapest.
the buyers from the big chains come across and see this olde worlde enterprise, order massive amounts.
his factory farm 200 miles away produces the goods.
just as an addendum, goods emanating from grain are more expensive due to the weather conditions around the globe.
some say this has been caused by global warming, others from vegetarians breaking wind.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#3
Yes you are right howard re the 'organic' farm outside Budapest. I dont think anyone looks too closely if some of these places are actually organic anyway as there have been rumours to the contrary in lots of cases. But it makes much more sense to buy local even if local is not organic.
I notice though, to give them their due, Tesco have introduced a buy local plan and you can actually get spuds from kent and so forth there now. This makes good sense to me and is quite a worthwhile initiative in the midst of all the silly stuff.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
It never fails to amaze me that we add to global warming by shipping food stuffs thousands of miles to sell in our supermarkets yet when you drive around Kent there are so many fields lying fallow.With todays techniques surely there is hardly a veg we can't grow in this country.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#5
While speaking of dietary fads...have you seen the report that says drinking 8 pints of water a day..or whatever the current trend is...is an altogether pointless experience. It has no health benefits whatsoever nor does it do much re getting rid of toxins as is the common belief.
Providing your not hydrated or something through sport exertion, or any kind of exertion for that matter, you might as well give your boredom threshold a break from consuming all that water !!..and perhaps go down the pub instead where the liquid is altogether more interesting.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
i always find that after an evening with the sauce that water is a great boon.
i usually wake up with a mouth like the bottom of a parrots cage and also the kidneys must need sluicing out.
i am now trying to adapt again to tap water after being conned for years by the bottled kind.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#7
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
you are probably right john.
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when i first saw that stuff on the shelves, i thought, who in their right mind would buy water?
after a while i did.
i have no excuses
