Success and Paris - a powerful paradox
13 January 2008 @ 13:18
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It is an interesting paradox, though, about people who can afford such meat (like us, we can fork out the extra £2.50-£3.00 for a free-range hen and afford, also, to go to the local market for our meat) and those who feel tempted by the cheapo stuff because their budgets are tight. Are all radical political (or otherwise) movements doomed to be lead by the middle-classes because they - like Lenin - can afford to sit around, think and plan revolutions? Are the so-called ‘working classes’ (I am not sure they exist as such anymore, but that’s another post in itself) to busy existing to give a f**k? Is this the greatest capitalistic fail-safe ever created?? I think I will return to this on my new column, which I am starting in a week or two, and more of which later… Not much going on here at the moment. Off to London for my birthday next weekend, to see King Tut and the terracotta warriors, which is exciting. It being that time of year, our thoughts have turned to holidays and we have booked our annual trip to Paris. We also plan another trip to North Yorkshire to see Chicken’s Aunt, Castle Howard and return to Whitby. We are hoping to get in another “city break” maybe to Italy, Amsterdam or Barcelona (where I can walk la Rumblas but without real intent) and a visit to nearby Cornwall, where Mr C has yet to go. It is windy here but not as rainy as we expected it to be. Yesterday - after I got back from work - we went for a nice walk, borrowing my brother’s dog, up local Dennington hill. Alex is heading off to Bristol tomorrow and we plan to be mostly lazy today. |
Yes, I made that comment about the noise, it makes iTunes and reading RR at the same time impossible. And I am a little surprised at how few people have signed up, 88,095 as I write this, so perhaps we can’t be bothered, or maybe, more likely, he is talking to the converted. But Jay Rayner in Sunday’s Observer had some interesting points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2239989,00.html
But perhaps what really matters are the missed meal ingredients, the soups with chicken stock, cakes with eggs and other much more obscure products. M&S seem to be taking a good approach, they banned all except Fair Trade coffee and tea in their cafes, but I am not sure how they are getting on with Fair Trade cotton products. It is difficult to know how far one can go. I guess the most important part of the campaign is allotment which as well as its chicken run also has a vegetable patch which will be a more effective improvement to the estate diet that anything that comes out of the chicken process.
But we are talking animal welfare rather than nutrition so… Ah well I am going round and round. Suffice to say its always good to think these things through, and if you can afford to, do it. But can we afford not too?