Another Christmas obsession
Posted at 11:14am on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005As well as surfing along the edge of pretention in my search for “art” I’ve also been worrying about something considerably more mundane… Being a long term fan of The Good Life and a sucker for anything produced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall my conscience has recently been rather painfully pricked by a) the distance that my food travels before it reaches my plate, and b) the treatment of the animals that I eat. All painfully noughties middle class Guardian reading things to worry about I know, but I can’t help it - I am a sucker for the zeitgeist. Anyway. It would appear that it isn’t only the British who are worrying about their pigs and chickens. we make money not art reports that the Dutch and Americans are also joining in… Better living for pigs and McDonalds move towards more humane chicken slaughter. I particularly like the idea of a pig high rise…
