Category: Ethics
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Hugh’s Chicken Run
DOCUMENTARY: Hugh’s Chicken Run On: Channel 4 (4) Date: Monday 7th January 2008 Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long) An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food…
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Big Blue Milk Float
Ok, no milk I’m afraid, but I took delivery of the new motor this morning – a Toyota Prius hybrid in Glacier Blue. It still feels as good as the demonstrator and I look forward to seeing mileages in the 60’s. My old Peugeot went away having averaged 49 mpg(uk) over her last ten fillups…
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Ramblings on death
It’s been hard to get back to this wibbling stream of unconsciousness. I think it’s been since attending a family funeral… the funeral service went as well as these things can do; the service was a Catholic Mass which was fine and apart from the obvious issues of being on ‘the wrong team’! But after…
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Chicken Out!
An open letter from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: I need your help… You may have heard about the conditions involved in intensive factory farming of broiler (meat) chickens. I feel that these conditions are unacceptable – so much so, that I’m launching a national campaign to put pressure on the industry to raise its standards: the Chicken…
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Losing your keys…
Hurrah for George Orwell! How he would … smile? (isn’t is funny that his real name was Blair…?) As of Monday 1st October the previously non-functional part of the ‘Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that dealy with decryption keys was activated. This means should you hold any encrypted information you may be required by…
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Hell and Damnation!
No, of course, I don’t hold with either of those sanctions having actual existence. The phrase is apt though. All my life I’ve treasured books, almost with reverence. To see someone fold back the spine until it cracks, or even to fold over a page corner to bookmark a place makes me cringe. It would…
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DNA database, a paranoid wibble
It all sounds so logical, doesn’t it? A national DNA database, into which the DNA record of every person living in, visiting or passing through the UK is stored. A foolproof means of detecting the identity of anyone at any time at any scene, and a perfect way of catching criminals. How could that be…
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Transition Towns
Just come across this group ‘Transition Towns’. Places actively acknowledging the post-Peak Oil future and working towards survival in a post fossil fuel world. Great site, and there’s even a couple of towns near me already involved! Linked. Technorati: Transition Peak Oil Sustainability
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Oh, you want to pay? That’ll cost extra…
I sometimes feel the world has gone mad. At other times I know it has. Today I got my quarterly bill from British Telecom for telephone services. I’m rather tied to BT, since the company pay the line rental in order to keep me on the GPTS, so I tend to check my bill if…
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Silbury and Stonehenge
Today, engineers will reopen the old tunnels that were made into the heart of Silbury Mound near Avebury, Wiltshire. Tunnels as recent as the late sixties and as early as the seventeenth century, and perhaps before, have caused accumulated damage to the chalk constructed mound – the largest man made prehistoric mound – to the…
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