The danger of centralised factory food

[ollie989898]

There’s a two tiered society there. You’ve the tier 1. folk who work 4/5day weeks, bank hols etc off, 28+ days holiday a year, then there’s the tier 2. folk who staff the shops/cafes/pubs/attractions that ensure tier 1. have a nice time on their days off and put up with a load of shite for their trouble. I’m with you, shut everything on Sunday’s, toonsers don’t really get going till half 11/12 anyway, so they’d only miss half a day.

Welcome to a career in healthcare/farming/retail...

 

[bluebell]

what about all those that now work? from home Cattle movement service for one? local council for two plus many many thousands of others, you see them wandering about during the week round my village and know doubt others, getting paid for a eight hour day five days a week, but can do all their work in less than 2 hours a day hence the wandering around? The stark opposite to this is the service sector, eg pubs, local village shop etc, years ago, these people who run the pubs, shops, were fairly well off members of the village, the shop didnt sell or had to sell half the products they do now to make a living or open all hours to do it, including the pub as well, every tried running a pub, its only second to dairy farming in the hours, work, only plus with dairy farming you dont have to deal with the public,.? Anyone whos been lucky enough not to have a job that has to to deal with the public dosnt know how lucky they are?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

what about all those that now work? from home Cattle movement service for one? local council for two plus many many thousands of others, you see them wandering about during the week round my village and know doubt others, getting paid for a eight hour day five days a week, but can do all their work in less than 2 hours a day hence the wandering around? The stark opposite to this is the service sector, eg pubs, local village shop etc, years ago, these people who run the pubs, shops, were fairly well off members of the village, the shop didnt sell or had to sell half the products they do now to make a living or open all hours to do it, including the pub as well, every tried running a pub, its only second to dairy farming in the hours, work, only plus with dairy farming you dont have to deal with the public,.? Anyone whos been lucky enough not to have a job that has to to deal with the public dosnt know how lucky they are?

Surely all jobs are a choice? If you don't like what you are doing then change it....

 

[Jonp]

Surely all jobs are a choice? If you don't like what you are doing then change it....

For some that maybe relatively easy but for those with no savings living from paycheck to paycheck it's the transition period between jobs that's the killer, even a month or a week with no income can cripple your finances, so it's safer to stay in your rubbish job.

 

[steveR]

Been watching on old series of Rick Stein, touring rural France in his Porsche 911, watched 3 episodes this week
A few years old now, since originally filmed
Last night’s programme-he visited a cattle market in Burgundy full of Charolais cattle & tried the steak in a small cafe in the town
How the French celebrate food and drink is a revelation, compared to uk and is where we are going wrong
Most is local and from small producers
The food markets he has visited have superb
Don’t know how we can back to their ideals of supporting all types of rural life
Not a carton of soya milk or tofu meal in sight

Great food and great motorcycling roads. Winner!

But every town now has the Lidl/Aldi as well as the local Supermarkets on the Ring road now... And I suspect it's where folks are moving to shop, same as here. What did surprise me last time was the number of in-store bakeries now.

 

[ski]

I have seen no compelling reason as to why the trend will not continue combined with the drive for 'cultured meat' the future looks horrible to me. Technology to bring all this about is speeding up and the population are moving closer toward wanting some form of man made wild pristine nature. Perhaps they will be able make that in a bioreactor as well. God help us.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Cult food science? Are you sure they’ve got the spelling right?

Great use of the word "expected" at the start of that. Oh, and "genuine" too.

 

[ollie989898]

I have seen no compelling reason as to why the trend will not continue combined with the drive for 'cultured meat' the future looks horrible to me. Technology to bring all this about is speeding up and the population are moving closer toward wanting some form of man made wild pristine nature. Perhaps they will be able make that in a bioreactor as well. God help us.

Sorry but that sounds disgusting. I'm not eating 100% adulterated food so I can hand more margin to food giants.

 

[Hard Graft]

we had it in farming this year with roundup salts as there are ony 3 factory’s that makes it I think and one was down for a refit and then one was hit last autumn by a storm that damaged it so I think they brought forward their refit hence Roundup prices