tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post1801281600900085495..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Nothing on the horse meat scandal?Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-11273073963454423182013-02-23T12:13:13.873+00:002013-02-23T12:13:13.873+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.nataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036893543523478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-39482896148409946312013-02-18T13:17:48.581+00:002013-02-18T13:17:48.581+00:00From my perspective the issue about cheap food is ...From my perspective the issue about cheap food is if it can be produced that cheaply, and safely, and people wish to eat it why shouldn't they? Anything else is just pure food snobbery. If you wish to pay toffs a premium to grow food inefficiently then buy organic food. If you want something in between go to Waitrose.<br /><br />The truth is that all food is broken down by the body into it's constituent parts, and it's very difficult for the average person to eat a diet deficient in some required substance. So there is virtually no difference in health outcomes between eating a Raymond Blanc meal, and a McDonalds. I'm not trying to say no-one should eat a Raymond Blanc meal, so I don't see why so many people are so keen to deny people a McDonalds.<br /><br />But make no mistake food is going to get more expensive, just look at the clamour to put extra tax on so called junk food. It is an equal mix of deep scientific ignorance, and good old fashioned statism, where the poor must be protected from themselves.Ian Reidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-16098674932085017382013-02-18T01:50:50.044+00:002013-02-18T01:50:50.044+00:00...and on another aside (sorry) the word I had to ......and on another aside (sorry) the word I had to type after that last posting (to "prove you are not a robot") was very close to Gannex...and it is 50 years almost to the day that Harold Wilson became leader of the Labour Party...Damian Hockneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805337734492250142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-10306399575086802172013-02-18T01:45:48.114+00:002013-02-18T01:45:48.114+00:00...and have lost count of the number of times I ha......and have lost count of the number of times I have "passed" on the links as well..."I could punish myself" as Charles Haughtrey said (Carry on Cabbie I think)Damian Hockneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805337734492250142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-7456309476426524172013-02-18T01:44:15.181+00:002013-02-18T01:44:15.181+00:00Indeed 'the Boss' is the authority on this...Indeed 'the Boss' is the authority on this and I have lost count of the number of times I have past on the links to others who have sounded off in typical bizarre and unmeasured manner (ie most politicians and journalists, never mind friends and family). I agree above all that this really has been a missed trick for UKIP - yes it is complex and yes it involves trying to master a maze of concepts and it would be unfair to criticise UKIP for not being the first to grasp this issue fully. But it demonstrates in so many ways how badly we are governed (and explanations of the issue expose this baldly), and it is important not to let the EU off the hook, which is the danger with the current approach of much of the press. For the purposes of a political party, you cannot beat sound research on an issue like this, allied to the ability to pare that down to words which can get the facts across clearly even in a short interview.Damian Hockneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805337734492250142noreply@blogger.com