Education Needed…
With the super-duper-hyper-markets obliterating local independent traders, people are settling for packaged mush for food. Those with the money can buy the finest items in the supermarkets, in fact, they can also shop at the finest markets too. The rest of us make do with the processed remnants of something that may or may not have lived. Fair enough, this has always been the way, but at least with butchers, bakers and green grocers we knew that the produce was reasonably local and of acceptable quality.
From the view of someone who often struggles financially, to eat well is to cripple oneself financially. Getting your five a day, when trying to live off of less than five pounds a day is on the verge of impossible! Wouldn’t we all like to save a few pounds, both in our purses and on our tummies, while maybe using that extra cash for a to buy italy ski holidays? Purchasing decent meat that you don’t have to feel guilty about eating is just as hard. So what do we do? We settle for TESCO ready meals and ASDA microwavables. You will see us in the ’almost out of date/reduced’section fighting for something cheap to eat. This can only get worse from here too: the big businesses are booming and the communities are busting. Thatcher must be loving it, we really have become consumers and are rapidly forgetting any sense of community. The soon-to-come cutbacks will just leave many more people in similar situations. Those queues by the reduced section will become real battle grounds: ridiculous when you think of what tripe we are competing for.
The supermarkets are making an absolute mockery of us, yet we are in no kind of position to boycott them. Not unless it becomes a national level boycott, which is beyond the realms of possibility when so many of us rely on their accessible but dire excuse for food. These supermarkets should be regarded as the enemy but rather act as our backstabbing, betraying ally. Surely, the answer is education on how to grow our own food in the space we have available, perhaps in the form of a book or DVD, I’m sure TESCO sell one.
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