Don Pearson
Viaduct, Many years ago, I disapproved of Israel because of their treatment of the Palestinians and of South Africa because of South Africa. As a result I would not eat any of the oranges that you could get here. Until 1975, when Franco died, I would not eat marmalade made with oranges from fascist Spain. I am uncomfortable knowing that almost everything that I need to live involves exploitation ...
Accepted. I have always been undecided on this, which is why I asked for your opinion. I have been torn between wanting to do some good, while recognising that a supermarket is likely to pocket far more of the extra price than ever finds its way to the producer. With the exception of coffee and chocolate, almost everything I buy is fresh from local shops. If I can buy a fairtrade product that I ...
Dullish, If I never did anything because lots of other people were better at it, I would be immobilised. Don
Dullish, We have made choices as best we could, for the best motives, that have led to hurt, for ourselves, for others. Some wrong or selfish paths may have led to good. Do you have any suggestions as to what local people who care should do? Do you have a personal view as to whether we should buy fairtrade goods or not buy them? Don
cyberDawlish ( A new multiple role-playing fantasy adventure. For those who have stimulated my imagination.) Here, in this place of light and shadow, Darkness may illuminate and brightness hide. Who knows what lies beneath obscuring cloaks, Behind the names chosen to reveal Only an image, projected onto a screen At the discretion of the writer. Here is a phantasmagoria, a new world Both ...
Joey, Thanks for this and the link repeated here because of a missing . www.dawlishfairtradefriends.org.uk
Another quotation, this time from the founder of Yahoo??? Just the man who might have made a Modest Proposal to solve simultaneously the problems of corrupt politicians and high fuel prices by burning their bodies to light up the streets.
Dullish, Without wanting to get involved in your dispute, I think most people quote Shakespeare, not to be superior but because they feel that he expresses many things so much better than they ever could themselves. It is almost an exercise of "cutting and pasting" something apprporiate in the same way that you might do so from a newspaper report. Sorry to intrude but I love Shakespeare.
Viaduct, Fortunate as I feel to live in this area and at this time, I do not have a cabinet as I do not drink. Were things otherwise, it might be very big and yet never have enough in it.
News (For all of us for whom such news has always been from somewhere else) Reports are coming in from the UK that a large number of insurgents were killed today in an air strike . The strike took place on Teignmouth in a hitherto calm area of England two hundred miles West of London. An Allied spokesman dismissed claims that those who died were civilians, saying, “We had indisputable ...
