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Old 09-01-2008, 12:44 PM posted to uk.business.agriculture,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Recommended viewing: BBC3 - Kill It, Cook It, Eat It returns this time the killing of infant animals as young as three week

On Wednesday, in article
et
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

I think you need to open your eyes to how close to the edge modern western
society is in regards to food and energy supplies. It's all "just in time"
the operative word being just.


You should see what happens if the delivery is late at one of your local
supermarkets. I've seen it happen a couple of times locally: some
breakdown and there's no bread. You can keep enough stock to cover such
odd days, but it was about half the daily bread supply for the town.



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