I mentioned recently that when I was very young a woman didn't seem to
know from where onions came.
Since then I have been contacted by a primary teacher who took her
class on a visit to a farm where they actually saw an egg being laid.
Now she is getting complaints from parents, as none of the children will now
eat eggs!!
One parent even asked her to say that they saw 'farm eggs' and not real
ones!!
We can't win.
Best Wishes Brian.

"Brian" wrote
I mentioned recently that when I was very young a woman didn't seem
to
know from where onions came.
Since then I have been contacted by a primary teacher who took her
class on a visit to a farm where they actually saw an egg being laid.
Now she is getting complaints from parents, as none of the children will
now
eat eggs!!
One parent even asked her to say that they saw 'farm eggs' and not real
ones!!
We can't win.

Well just look at the flack Jamie Oliver is getting for slaughtering a sheep
when on his tour of Italy, having watched it I cannot understand what there
was to complain about. Although it certainly wasn't done in accordance with
EU rules it was filmed in the nicest possible way, Jamie explained his
feelings quite well and his dislike of the job was all too evident.
Must be another case of people not wanting to know where their food comes
from.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"Brian" wrote
I mentioned recently that when I was very young a woman didn't
seem to
know from where onions came.
Since then I have been contacted by a primary teacher who took
her
class on a visit to a farm where they actually saw an egg being
laid.
Now she is getting complaints from parents, as none of the children
will now
eat eggs!!
One parent even asked her to say that they saw 'farm eggs' and not
real
ones!!
We can't win.

Well just look at the flack Jamie Oliver is getting for slaughtering
a sheep when on his tour of Italy, having watched it I cannot
understand what there was to complain about. Although it certainly
wasn't done in accordance with EU rules it was filmed in the nicest
possible way, Jamie explained his feelings quite well and his
dislike of the job was all too evident.
Must be another case of people not wanting to know where their food
comes from.
Sad innit :~{{

I'm pleased to report that our daughter is showing herself to be her
mother's daughter - she took her little girl to the butcher's
yesterday to choose the meat for her own birthday lunch today.
Everything else, the child will have helped to grow on the allotment.
--
Rod

My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp
Just remove the weedy bits
and transplant the appropriate symbol at.

Bob Hobden wrote:

Well just look at the flack Jamie Oliver is getting for slaughtering a sheep
when on his tour of Italy, having watched it I cannot understand what there
was to complain about.

I watch this and was wondering what people will say. Where did you
see/read the flack Jamie's getting? I'm really interested. What did
they say?

Although it certainly wasn't done in accordance with
EU rules it was filmed in the nicest possible way, Jamie explained his
feelings quite well and his dislike of the job was all too evident.
Must be another case of people not wanting to know where their food comes
from.

EU regulation pah!! When I moved to Paris from a little town in the
Dordogne in the early 70s I lived in a rough and poor area. The first
sight I was confronted with on my way to school was seeing the pavement
gutters running not with water but with blood. The neighbourhoods of
Belville, Creteil, Villeuneuve, Vanvres ... in fact most of the
Parisien neighbourhoods I knew and still do have a very high
concentration of immigrants from Tunisia and Morocco who not only keep
sheep and goats in their courtyards, but slaughter them in situ. It is
not a surprise - I know people who also do this in Manchester,
Birmingham and London. Those regulations are not realistic to the way
we live.

Now, I see allotmenters selling their surplus vegs like if it was some
contreband as it is forbiden to sell those vegs because of pollution.
Even manure is sometimes 'given' in secrecy. Our kids don't know what
they eat. The world is going against the way the human race is growing,
sharing and taking its food. I'd ban and burn all those pre-packed
diners. I'll jail all the people responsible for the creation of pot
noodles. I urge every mother to remove their children from school
diners.... God. Don't get me started ...

In article ,
Rod Craddock wrote:
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

Well just look at the flack Jamie Oliver is getting for slaughtering
a sheep when on his tour of Italy, having watched it I cannot
understand what there was to complain about. Although it certainly
wasn't done in accordance with EU rules it was filmed in the nicest
possible way, Jamie explained his feelings quite well and his
dislike of the job was all too evident.
Must be another case of people not wanting to know where their food
comes from.

Sad innit :~{{

I'm pleased to report that our daughter is showing herself to be her
mother's daughter - she took her little girl to the butcher's
yesterday to choose the meat for her own birthday lunch today.
Everything else, the child will have helped to grow on the allotment.

While I can't stand his politics, Robert A. Heinlein said:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

I have done most of those, and can also gather food from the wild,
make netting tools and make a net, and a few other things. My view
is that we might be better off if nobody ate meat that thet hadn't
killed and butchered themselves :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren wrote:

While I can't stand his politics, Robert A. Heinlein said:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

))

I have done most of those, and can also gather food from the wild,
make netting tools and make a net, and a few other things. My view
is that we might be better off if nobody ate meat that thet hadn't
killed and butchered themselves :-)

Amen to that too.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

I have done most of those, and can also gather food from the wild,
make netting tools and make a net, and a few other things. My view
is that we might be better off if nobody ate meat that thet hadn't
killed and butchered themselves :-)
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Well don't practise the 'dying gallantly' just yet :~)
Jenny

In article ,
JennyC wrote:

"Nick Maclaren" wrote

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

I have done most of those, and can also gather food from the wild,
make netting tools and make a net, and a few other things. My view
is that we might be better off if nobody ate meat that thet hadn't
killed and butchered themselves :-)

Well don't practise the 'dying gallantly' just yet :~)

I am not so hot on the 'fighting efficiently', either :-)

Nick.

"La puce" wrote after...

Bob Hobden wrote:

Well just look at the flack Jamie Oliver is getting for slaughtering a
sheep
when on his tour of Italy, having watched it I cannot understand what
there
was to complain about.

I watch this and was wondering what people will say. Where did you
see/read the flack Jamie's getting? I'm really interested. What did
they say?

Take your pick.....

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbi...rce=Daily+Mail

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...3&in_a_source=

http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulleti...mb-slaughter-/


--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:07:28 +0000, Brian wrote:

I mentioned recently that when I was very young a woman didn't seem to
know from where onions came.
Since then I have been contacted by a primary teacher who took her
class on a visit to a farm where they actually saw an egg being laid.
Now she is getting complaints from parents, as none of the children will now
eat eggs!!
One parent even asked her to say that they saw 'farm eggs' and not real
ones!!
We can't win.
Best Wishes Brian.
*******************************
How freaky and frightful....AND what's worse...people going to
university now have huge millstones of debt around their necks, especially
if two ex-students marry. Then they have to find a house to live in.
So both when they become parents have to go out to work to strive to pay
the enormous bills....which means that poor children have to be put into
government sustained creches the latest being that they must be taught to
read and write from the minute they go... to be taught not to read Baa Baa
Black sheep, respect for the country and its history, its culture its
anthems etc etc. Government coup...a new Labour brainwashed
generation! However from aged five they will have a detailed knowledge of
homosexuality another off the wall things!"Children of five to be taught
about gay lifestyles"(Daily Mail Nov 4th 2005)
*************************

The message
from Welsh Witch contains these words:

Government coup...a new Labour brainwashed
generation! However from aged five they will have a detailed knowledge of
homosexuality another off the wall things!"Children of five to be taught
about gay lifestyles"(Daily Mail Nov 4th 2005)

Do you believe everything you see in the Daily Maul? For that matter, do
you believe *ANYTHING*?

--
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Brian wrote:

I mentioned recently that when I was very young a woman didn't seem to
know from where onions came.
Since then I have been contacted by a primary teacher who took her
class on a visit to a farm where they actually saw an egg being laid.

snip

I read this quite quickly... and started thinking that a man who knows
that onion eggs are laid on special farms... has a lot to teach me ;-)

Cat(h)
Herds twirl slow...

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from Welsh Witch contains these words:

Government coup...a new Labour brainwashed
generation! However from aged five they will have a detailed
knowledge of homosexuality another off the wall things!"Children
of
five to be taught about gay lifestyles"(Daily Mail Nov 4th 2005)

Do you believe everything you see in the Daily Maul? For that
matter,
do you believe *ANYTHING*?

Ah, the good old Daily Mailed Fist! ("How do you confuse the editor
of the DM?" -- "Tell him illegal immigrants are the natural prey of
asylum seekers.")

I know it's OT, and I don't know what a "gay lifestyle" is*; but my
children's sex education started when they asked the first question,
and that included -- as and when it arose, and in gentle stages --
gay and lesbian matters. That way, nobody (especially me) got
embarrassed, and I hope nobody grew up ignorant.

*Interior decoration? All-in wrestling? Moustache-wearing?
Motorbikes? Pop-singing? Gardening? No, I'm still baffled.

--
Mike.