Wednesday 8 June 2011

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."

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