ritter wrote:Anybody know what happened to Zardoz? (thread originator)
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:ritter wrote:Anybody know what happened to Zardoz? (thread originator)
I emailed him back in December, he is fine but figured that the Fracking revolution makes PO pushed off into the future so he went on to other concerns. If the fracking bubble pops big time he might return, or he could be lurking right now to see if we are talking about him lol.
kiwichick wrote:
i'd bet that any country with a reasonably competent government will try to ensure the essential services are maintained; including the system that provides food for their citizens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33814362
Russia has bulldozed a pile of Western-produced cheese and tonnes of other foodstuffs imported in violation of sanctions.
The country has also steamrollered fruit and burnt a huge pile of bacon.
The actions come a year after Russia banned some Western food products in retaliation to EU and US sanctions applied after Moscow annexed Crimea.
The destruction has caused an outcry from anti-poverty campaigners who say it should have been given to the poor.
One steamroller took an hour to crush nine tonnes of cheese. Another consignment was due to be burnt. Boxes of bacon have been incinerated. Peaches and tomatoes were also due to be crushed by tractors
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, agricultural price support programs led to vast amounts of food being deliberately destroyed at a time when malnutrition was a serious problem in the United States and hunger marches were taking place in cities across the country. For example, the federal government bought 6 million hogs in 1933 alone and destroyed them. Huge amounts of farm produce were plowed under, in order to keep it off the market and maintain prices at the officially fixed level, and vast amounts of milk were poured down the sewers for the same reason. Meanwhile, many American children were suffering from diseases caused by malnutrition.
–Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics (3rd Edition, Basic Books, 2007), p. 56.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33907737
Plans to introduce a French law that bans supermarkets from destroying unsold food and obliges them to give it to charity is irritating retailers who say they already make a big effort to fight waste.
Under the law, stores of more than 400 sq m would have until July 2016 to sign contracts with charities or food banks, and to start giving them unsold produce.
It follows a media campaign run by a young right-wing politician, Arash Derambarsh, who says he was outraged by the sight of homeless people last winter scrambling in supermarket bins.
The EU became the world's biggest exporter of agricultural foodstuffs in 2013. Goods worth $163 billion left the EU, beating the US figure of $156 billion. Sales were driven by record exports to China and other emerging market
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