I ate a green salad in the middle of Europe recently. It was fresh; the leaves were picked within a few hours of them being in my mouth. It was local produce of a kind that is very hard to get in my own country these days. On the supermarket shelves we have salad leaves that come from exotic places and these make dull salad, as though the effort and energy expended on getting them from far off lands onto my table has taken all the taste out of them. Even fruits taste dull. These year cherries taste of water and even those English strawberries lack taste.
The farmers are complaining that they are producing milk at below cost. Good quality English milk costs in my local supermarket around £1 a litre, although I do not know and I cannot find out how much of that £1 gets into the hands of the farmer who produced that excellent milk. Ultimately, the end user has to be to blame for the low price that farmers receive. They are quite happy to buy milk from anywhere at very low prices and are often attracted into a supermarket because milk may be very cheap there.
I ate a water melon yesterday. It was described as an organic product (I have yet to see an inorganic water melon) but when I cut it open I found it had an unusually thin skin. It was described as a product from outside the European Union. It had little taste.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/9418651/Food-price-alert-as-US-woes-spread.html
you should try living on rats and witchety grubs, then you might be grateful.
I don’t think that’s our choice.
We have been eating our own salad for several weeks now, strawberries apples and other greens too, we grow our own of course, no supermarkets no need to start the car just a minuites walk into an organic wonderland of sore fingers and hard work involved beforehand, we made time and now the bounty is ours to share also.
This topic is again downto the paradigm being con-trolled by one form of legislation or another, dictated upon those who want to chase the money.
Codex Alimentarious is a subject one might want to look into to see how its is being done, bigger than big corporations are supplying the imaginary money which comes from thin air to steal everyones real toil and true labours to make even more rules to steal more of your labour and use the ready energies that belongs to everyone, to steal even more of your labour by even more legislation.
All we need to do is start doing more for ourselves, find the time to leave the human farm behind where your own labour becomes yours and not those who take a cut so they don’t have to works as hard as they should.
Thiese minuites go out to every consumer, farmer and the common base and popular, its time to wake up and make their future the way they want to see it through honest self pelf.
Otherwise stay as we are moaning about who is zooming who, this the lazy, greedy reley upon you to do nothing.
The alarm has sounded and the time is 8.30 am.
Once the men with the spanners in their hands wake up in earnest the game is afoot and with a steady hand and a clear mind the benefits of ones own labours can be fully realised, ans if the majority stop giving away their labour ans stop stealing anothers in the same light, Then all will be reality on a plate of greens for all’s worth.