The changing countryside
The Royal Cornwall Show website is a useful barometer of what's hot and what's not in life outside the city walls. Type the word "solar" into the exhibitors' search engine and you get no fewer than 13 entries from subsidy-seekers. Type the word "organic" and you get 15 entries. I've no idea where this thread is going but as I write this, the Women's Institute is meeting in Liverpool and debating whether to call for a ban on factory farming. Suggestions, please, for exhibitors' entries in the year 2030...
STOP PRESS: It looks as if the Women's Institute decided not to debate the factory farming motion after all, following complaints from some delegates in Liverpool that it lacked clarity and needed a tighter definition of what was meant by a "factory farm."
I'm ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Devon’s Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
Comment number 1.
At 9th Jun 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:As the brightest race we do enjoy circumventing issues, the problem is not farming or supermarkets it’s that there are too many humans on earth and mankind is growing by millions each year. With people starving even in Britain morals go out the window the current increases in fuel and food prices is pulling against this issue as well so I suggest birth control pills and ban on having more than one child, now that’s what I call radical exhibition
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Comment number 2.
At 9th Jun 2011, backofanenvelope wrote:Oh come on! People starving in Britain. Give me a few examples please. Bit like someones comment in the local paper a few weeks ago that the fields of Cornwall are full of people sleeping rough. I've kept my eyes open for them ever since.......
It isn't our population that needs controlling; we (the indigenous we) are not even replacing ourselves.
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Comment number 3.
At 11th Jun 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:hmm, not sure we are allowed to post links to external sites, but I can confirm that for the past decade more than 200 people have died each year in the NHS
from starvation
Try googling Starved by the NHS: 242 patients die from malnutrition in a single year
Starved-NHS-242-patients-die-malnutrition-single-year The Mail
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Comment number 4.
At 11th Jun 2011, backofanenvelope wrote:This is just sophistry. These people died, not because they couldn't afford to eat, but because the wonderful NHS couldn't manage to feed them. The NHS that the leader of the County Council thinks is the envy of the world!
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Comment number 5.
At 11th Jun 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:We live in denial about the mess the NHS has become, through fear we will offend the hard working nurses, yet if they are asked they will agree that it has been dragged down by middle management and clip boards. At the end of the day people died through not being fed, I personally do not care where people come from just how many; we have not the resources to support the population thus this is the white elephant standing in the room which we choice not to see yet is only getting worse
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