Over 20 years ago Brussels had decreed that henceforth fruit and vegetables needed to comply with ideal standards of shape, size and colour. Vegetable eugenics was a boon to Europhobes, supermarket buyers and agrochemical manufacturers alike. It accelerated the demise of smaller arable farms and prompted a growth spurt in plastic cloches, despite the best [...]
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Beyond Them and Us
November 8, 2008 – 10:45 am
It is sobering to consider that half of humanity exists at a level of the economic inferno which we blithely label as “less than a dollar a day.” Just stop and think about what that means. Is there any part of your own life that you can recognise in that? I live in India, and [...]