A fine cool morning, as Scotland's weather continues it's brave bid for independence from the rest of the UK, and another enjoyable 25 minute run. As an experiment, from now on I will try to balance negative & critical comments in this blog with something more positive.
That global bastion of responsible & in-depth journalism, the BBC, has asked the critical question: Why are the French not interested in the sex lives of the powerful?, as the UK media strive to justify their prurient obsession with the sexual activities of the rich & famous on the grounds of serving the public interest. Yada yada. The argument would be a bit more convincing if they were equally enthusiastic about exposing the greed & tax-avoidance stratagems of the rich & famous, or their views on environmental responsibility, or any of the issues that actually matter.
Meanwhile back in Hamburg it seems that bean sprouts are the latest suspect in the e-coli outbreak, or more precisely, some careless fertilising of bean sprouts. Hopefully the sprouts themselves won't be generally victimised as a food. In the 1940s Clive McCay, professor of nutrition at Cornell University, described soya bean sprouts as an almost perfect food - ‘A vegetable which will grow in any climate, will rival meat in nutritive value, will mature in three to five days, may be planted any day of the year, will require neither soil nor sunshine, will rival tomatoes in Vitamin C, will be free of waste in preparation and can be cooked with little fuel…’. We need foods like that !
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