A ten-day celebration featuring talks, workshops and demonstrations hosted by people who study or work with science, engineering and technology.
14-22 March, 2003
Train and play a tiny team. Mine is Toast Wednesday...
I love BBC's Countryfile. They do try to be fair, but it's clear that the producers are sensible people. Today's programme showed how the pheasant shooting industry is becoming greedy and wicked in raising and releasing millions of pheasants simply for sport shooters. While they insist (as these people do) that they are "saving" the countryside, they are in fact fucking it up by releasing too many pheasants and then killing so many that they aren't eaten, but simply buried or burnt.
They also showed how a farmer in Wales is diversifying by learning to butcher his own meat and selling direct to consumers, making a third more profit in the meantime (and providing local produce for local people). Fantastic - I wish we had more livestock farms nearby, but farming here is almost entirely arable.
Interesting, though, in a small country like Britain, we know more about farming and the issues that concern the food we eat. When I lived in the states, I rarely saw farms, never knew and farmers or heard any of the issues they face. Here, I'm related to farmers and see and hear about them all the time...