O.K., I have to update the list of my five favourite beers after finally discovering the wonder that is Fuller’s Extra Special Bitter:
Honourable mentions:
I might also be adding Innis & Gunn Blonde to the list shortly: I’m sipping my first one right now, and really enjoying that hint of caramel that Darren noted on a Blog o’ Beer post.
A friend shared his top five favourite beers through a Facebook application, so I thought I’d do the same (without sharing my photos, info., etc. with developers I’ve never met):
Honourable mentions:
I just sent the following message to BBC’s Have Your Say:
I just heard the tail-end of a World Service spot on food packaging and I had a few thoughts: the argument that we should be looking beyond the food packaging we see in the grocery store to all the packaging that has gone into getting it from the farm to there, and that seemingly-wasteful, visible packaging could actually save waste in intermediary packaging and spoiled food is both excellent and insightful. However, it and subsequent statements during the spot rely on a few assumptions that I feel deserve some scrutiny.
First, it assumes that access to food in the developed world should be as close to uniform as possible: that is, that we should ship strawberries and pomegranates as far as is feasible, without seriously considering equivalent nutritional value. Or, put yet another way, that variety for variety’s sake is more important than eating locally (even if your ‘locally’ could reasonably be called regionally).
Second, specifically regarding grocery-shopping intervals, that shopping every other day for certain products (e.g., loose produce) is unacceptable; and, following from that, that having the developed world shopping once a week for groceries is sustainable.
I’m sure there are many people who would say that these assumptions are reasonable, but I think it strengthens the debate to explicitly consider them when discussing sustainable means of feeding the planet.
