On the important French Fry Question

Rob Schaap rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Sun Jan 21 08:56:37 PST 2001


G'day Doug,


>Hmm, so where's it stop? The computer I'm typing on was made a giant
>multinational and assembled in Mexico. There's a stereo next to me
>made by Sony in China. The coffee I'm drinking came from Kenya, a
>country filled with poor and hungry people, and the beans were grown
>and picked under god knows what exploitative conditions. You don't
>really believe that individual consumption choices can clean an
>unclean world, do you?

Bet your computer, stereo and all quite nice, though ...


>You don't really believe that individual consumption choices can clean an
>unclean world, do you?

Tell 'em that one down at Monsanto's GMF section ... there ain't any one answer, I s'pose, unless you're a red-in-tooth-and-claw stormer of winter palaces, and that ain't an answer right now, either ... but the 'every little bit helps' idea, illusion though it might often be, does keep the notion of not going along with the flow alive, and whilst a few of us remain outside Room 101, the human species remains a going concern, I s'pose.

Night all, Rob.



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