A number of responses to below:
The "fantasised world" of people moving to the country to get a better lifestyle?
There was this thing called the bus service. Or the train service.
Fish shops smelled strongly of fish but I don't remember any problems with other shops except limited range of produce which, as a child, I did not have a problem with.
CAn't see why anyone should determine what we can buy and when but don't actually have a particular need to buy goods on a Sunday either.
Provided you have transport to get to the market.
Local shops are not necessarily bad. I use a good greengrocer in Ivybridge; he even sells ripe fruit which is more than you can get at a smkt.
Are smkts better than them too?
Local food vs. Supermarkets 176White flight? We shopped more often - had a small shop (2 in fact) a couple of minutes from the house; and ate less. Milk was delivered; so were...
Their contracts put the farmer at a considerable disadvantage; more than many small farms can take and survive. Business can only continue while
And waste of fossil fuel and increase in pollution.
No. I shouldn't think so.
You are lucky. Many people haven't.
My butcher is polite and helpful; he considers it a necessary part of meeting the public.
Yes.
are supporting. By always demanding the cheapest we are ignoring things like animal welfare, quality of produce, adequate working conditions for people in the production industry, the future of food production in UK. I find it frustrating that people who wail loud and long about animal welfare, look for a hunting ban - and now a shooting ban - still support food production systems where animal welfare problems are likely and should be suspected by any thinking person. They don't care if it's not being put in front of them.
(1) AIUI our education system no longer teaches school children how to cook. (2) There is no room in the life of a young family these days for one person (parent) to devote their time to home-making. Where both parents (or the one parent responsible) has to wrok fulltime to provide a roof, there is less time for preparing fresh food and the tendency is naturally to use ready prepared-cooked products, particularly if these are what you, yourself, were raised on so you don't know anything different and have never been in a position to learn what food is.
I agree. Then people would consider aspects other than price and we might achieve quality food and other aspects of life.
I've gone on a bit, I know, but you pushed a few of my buttons.
Cheers Jane
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