Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 9 Editor's Choice: 1
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Sounds a lot like the UK pre-BSE
[Read the article: What's wrong with our food?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading this article I was reminded of the situation in the UK before BSE happened, where the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was responsible both for promoting farmers' interests and protecting food consumers.
Long story short, it just didn't work, producer interests were prioritised, and when BSE came along the problems were made very plain. The incoming Blair government commissioned a report (the James Report) on the situation, and on the back of that created an independent Food Standards Agency, incorporating the consumer protection functions of MAFF, including inspection of slaughterhouses.
Worth looking at the UK experience now, rather than waiting for your wake-up call.
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Surprised?
[Read the article: You are now free to pollute about the country]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It may come as a surprise to learn the airline industry itself is talking green."
Nope. Acting green, now that would be a surprise.
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Read the Register much?
[Read the article: Greenpeace: The iPhone contains toxic chemicals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Greenpeace has laid into Apple's iPhone, alleging the device isn't eco-friendly enough - only to admit that the product not only meets the terms of Apple's own pledges on the use of certain hazardous chemicals but doesn't fall foul of European Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation either."
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/16/greenpeace_vs_apple/
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Iraq is not the only foreign policy issue
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You praise Rep. Paul's foreign policy proposals, saying:
"He reserves his greatest scorn for America's hegemonic rule of the world through superior military force"
Well, perhaps, but his foreign policy proposals more generally are an up-with-the-barricades policy of facing the wall and pretending the rest of the world isn't happening. The United Nations? Bad. World trade? Bad. Any kind of international law or regulation? Bad.
Sorry, but that makes Paul not only wrong in my view, but also dangerous. We (and here I mean my fellow non-Americans) have had almost eight years of someone who thinks the world should follow America's rules or f**k off, and we're not keen for more. Although the absence of needless wars would be good, the absence of any commitment by America to multilateral engagement on Iran, on global warming, or on the Middle East would be bad. Potentially terminally bad.
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GYOB
[Read the article: Dogma days ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the blathering I mind, so much as the fact that she's being paid for it.
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AppleTV
[Read the article: Apple's solid Macworld is kind of a letdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]manyctnj, it's a free software upgrade so us early adopters aren't screwed (for once).
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Excellent
[Read the article: Anonymous no more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Completely the right way to go.
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A very nice man
[Read the article: In memory of Gordon Ramsay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a chef who really does treat the inexperienced well, check out BBC's "The Restaurant" if it comes on BBC America. It's a kind of foodie version of the Apprentice. Raymond Blanc, who plays the Donald Trump/Alan Sugar role, is a very polite and gentle mentor figure,.
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Don't forget...
[Read the article: Girls in trouble for catcalling construction workers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...this is the Telegraph, aka the Torygraph, a paper of the traditionalist right-wing. They love to report these sorts of role-reversal stories, the spin usually being "women's rights (or more usually race relations laws) - who needs 'em?"