Spring is Sprung!
And so we near the end of another year – one of many ups and downs and lending truth to the words of our old Greek friend Heraclitus who wisely proclaimed that “the only thing constant is change!”
Food seems to have been the subject of headlines for much of the year – floods and weather events laying waste to vast tracts of land in the areas where much of our produce is grown and much hand wringing and blaming of the newly titled “supermarket duopolies” for the resultant shortages and inevitable price increases.
What hasn’t seemed to have been raised as an issue is that of what is in the food that takes a longer route from paddock to plate via some manufacturing process or another.
Poached chicken- oozing with ……?
At the same time it seems that every second person has an intolerance of some kind and a scary number have a cancer of some kind. Perhaps our Grocery Commission and Consumer Institute could get over their obsession with supermarket profits and look at what’s actually in the food we’re served up with.
Meanwhile, back on home turf, Mother Nature appears to care not a fig about all of that – unprompted, unaided and right on schedule she’s bursting forth with springtime goodness in every neglected corner of what one loosely calls “the garden”. Happy Springtime y’all!
Rubytoos 