Just feel like ranting! The recession is here, and here to stay for quite a while by all accounts. Seems like people want to fully enjoy the recession by not feeding their brains properly. The great excuse of not having enough money to buy good food can now be couched in 'the recession' so it is no longer embarrassing for people to have to make excuses why they are not shopping at the farmer's market.
The net result...... we are all going backwards. Why people don't fully understand that what they put into their bodies not only has an impact on themselves and their own well being, but also the environment that we live in is beyond me.
We run a small husband and wife business. We are passionate about supporting good farmers and just have to find a way to ensure that we survive, so by default we help them survive. If we don't, lots of people will say 'just another victim of the recession'. In truth it will say more about people's eating habits than it will about the recession. I would rather a proud nation that stopped buying designer jeans (or quite so many pairs) than the quality of food that we put into ourselves.
FACT: the price of a takeaway has not increased in the last 10 years. Go on - dig out your old take away menus from the late 90's. Bet you the Tikka masala is the same price as it is today. In the meantime we have had extraordinary energy rises, raw material price increases, labour cost increases, council and business rate tax increases. So - how are most of them doing it? Using as cheap a meat as they possibly can. And guess what - the majority of people don't care about it. At last year's real food festival (www.realfoodfestival.co.uk) there was a debate when Trudie Styler (the Organic flag waving wife of Sting) admitted that she was anal at home in following organic principles but did not really bother too much when she was out (I think because it causes too much fuss). And therein lies the rub. Let's not cause a fuss - how British.
Well - time to cause a fuss. I think our sanity depends on it.
Below are two articles well worth reading. Both relate to the Pig Industry that has had lots of coverage this year.
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