Wednesday, March 07, 2007

[blogfocus wednesday] twelve true tales of today

1 Matt must indeed be An Insomniac to be in so many places at one time. Here he gives a very neat little justification for meat eating, not that I needed any encouragement:

Cutting costs ultimately means a drop in the quality of living conditions for livestock – lower quality food, less room, more chemicals to speed up growth, etc. The consequences of this will be that smaller producers will be squeezed out of the market, as large scale industrial farms can afford to put out cheaper (if lower quality) meat and withstand market pressure better. So convincing people to become vegetarian, whatever its symbolic value, will favour industrial farming methods and lead to worse conditions for livestock.


2 Welshcakes, cuisine blogger extraordinaire at Sicily Scene, writes of Modica and in doing so, says much about Sicily itself:

Modica has a lovely and charming theatre, the Teatro Garibaldi and for years when I first used to come here I was frustrated because I could never get inside: it was always in restauro. Finally it was restored to its former glory but in 2001 the new roof fell in! Miraculously, no one was injured. Now six of those involved in that restoration project have received suspended prison sentences. I should add that the theatre is now functioning again and if you are in Modica it really is worth a visit.

3 Westminster Wisdom certainly comes out with the good oil on whatever issue he tackles, usually historical but this time it's the Scooter Libby question:

Libby's fall though has prompted people to raise some more provocative questions about the longterm in the United States. Jonathan Martin thinks that it makes it very difficult for the Republicans in 2008, Frank Luntz is speculating about the long term future of the Republican party itself. Personally I think that's overblown- the damage will be to Bush and to this administration, it might make it harder for a Republican but I still think their candidate will have a chance in 2008 besides a lot may change by then.

Another nine bloggers here.

1 comment:

  1. You must be the most well informed man in the universe, do you ever have time to sleep after such an eclectic gathering of material for you blogfocus.

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