Observer Food Monthly

Billed as their "biggest food issue ever". Well it got me to buy a Sunday newspaper. A whole 108 pages - but 40% of that is adverts. I don't mind adverts but i do mind big profit making corporations telling me how eco-friendly they are - when their business practises are otherwise. October Edition online One good article on the scandal of organic farmed salmon which shames the Soil Association which put its name to this cruelty. Lady Balfour would have been outraged. I've been hearing stories about the lowering of standards for the big producers of food so they can get an organic premium. They've lost all credibility with me. Why organic salmon is causing a nasty smell? The rest of the magazine read like the 21st Century version of the 1700's. There are Celebrities who live in London, dress up and know about good food. Then there are the peasants who do the work of fishing, farming and making marvelous cheese and cakes. They live in the sticks, earn very little and never go to London. You are invited to glimpse into these two worlds. When none of it speaks about your life, it's time to move on or have a revolution.