tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110873829655511995.post1329456401249682278..comments2023-06-10T00:01:59.851+02:00Comments on Thoughts from a Mountain: A Horse! A Horse! My Findus Is A Horse!He Who Talks Bollockshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15279294907163329157noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110873829655511995.post-84803938675646495922013-02-09T14:26:29.516+01:002013-02-09T14:26:29.516+01:00I couldn't agree more with everything that you...I couldn't agree more with everything that you say.<br /><br />My contention, in all of my more serious posts, is that whatever we believe we still live in a feudal society. Granted the standard of living of even the lowliest members of society has increased beyond measure. However, for those at the apex of the pyramid, it is infinitely better and always will be so. <br /><br />This is no conspiracy theory I hasten to add. If people like the late Steve Jobs become billionaires through insight and creativity, I applaud them. the whole process is merely human nature. Nowadays the scramble to the top may not be restricted only to the nobility, but there is still a marked oligarchy.<br /><br />We at the bottom still have to pay our tithes to our lords in the form of taxes and bills. "Democracy" is nothing more than a bloodless way of changing one set of robber barons for another, yet it is infinitely better than any other method. We should not, however, fall into the trap that we have any real choices. Most of us have a set menu from which we can choose our fare from a very restricted offer while others dine à la carte.<br /><br />What I am really interested in is our ability as individuals to choose our friends, to love our families and to live according to our own values - hoping that this means that we act in the best possible way towards the greatest number of people. This is the only real choice that we have.<br /><br />Dog eat dog is the human condition. We will never change it. Passivity or at least, non-confrontational opposition(i.e. buy locally and make the home a much more central part of our life) is the only option for the great majority of us. We should however be aware that whatever we do, it only causes a momentary ripple in a stormy sea. Not letting the sea rage - or seep - into our own small domestic teacup is the best we can hope for.<br /> He Who Talks Bollockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279294907163329157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110873829655511995.post-56674924360158510822013-02-09T13:39:20.906+01:002013-02-09T13:39:20.906+01:00As a vegetarian, I could be complacent about the c...As a vegetarian, I could be complacent about the current scandal involving meat and all the others that pop up from time to time. I am not, however, partly because, as you mention, at least some vegetarian foods can be messed about with in ways we would not like if we knew about them, and partly because vegetarian or not, I get my food from the same food industry as everyone else and what affects one sector of that industry will cause ripples in all the others.<br /><br />One thing that concerns me in this case is the repeated statement that the presence of horse meat in beef products indicates "criminal activity". This criminal activity has been detected only because horse meat can be distinguished from beef and the interloper detected. How do we know that less easily detected "criminal activity" is not affecting the whole food supply industry? For example, the presence of condemned beef in beef lasagne would not be as detectable as horse meat is.<br /><br />The horse meat scandal may in fact be an indication of widespread "criminal activity" in the food industry.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com