Friday, 30 January 2009

The gal knows her stuff.

The answer to my question on the quote is indeed Karl Marx and the date was 1867,so Mary Sue goes top of the class for knowing Karl Marx, but the date was a tricky one because it,s very relevant today,and appears more recent than it actually was.
Though the second question where is the black swan? could be a little more difficult,maybe it has flown home to Perth Western Australia,as they are native to that city,living on the Swan River which flows through the city.
Last night we watched a programme of Jamie Olivers about the way pigs are reared,it seems we British have more humane methods than the rest of Europe,but even these are offputting to say the least, free range is the only humane way but it seems the customers will not pay a little extra for them,or will they? have they been asked? is it the supermarkets dictating to the farmers ,and imposing low prices on them? if the farmers get together and fix prices and methods then the supermarkets will buy cheap inhumane reared pork products from Europe,the answer is with the buying public,BUY BRITISH.and level out the playing field,that is presuming you want to eat meat at all.
For American readers Jamie Oliver is a "celebrity" chef who appears on TV.

3 comments:

Mike Saif said...

Google can make anyone look smart.

Mike Saif said...

But unless you use Google wisely, you can get duped. Marx didn't say that, it is a hoax.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.war.vietnam/browse_thread/thread/4a09bb9a36ec27eb/7b033b99001bbcf7?lnk=raot&pli=1

http://www.belgraded.com/blog/off-the-record/the-mysterious-karl-marx-quote

Sheila or Graham said...

I found the quote in the ultra conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph,and sent it out ad verbatim. Graham