Good value peanut butter?

Ruth_honey

I had some from B&M ages ago, then it disappeared from the shelves for months, but went in yesterday & it's back! Maybe your local will get stock in soon?

armyknife

A._Badger wrote: »

Are you disputing the pennies or the principle?

The EU alone has bunged £75 million to 'green' lobbying groups in recent years.

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/06/research-british-taxpayers-fund-environmentalist-campaigns-75m-eu-programme.html

The WWF receives a reported $400 million every year and is always on the lookout for more:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7488629/WWF-hopes-to-find-60-billion-growing-on-trees.html

Far from the 'cuddly hippy doing it for the children' image they like to portray, there are murky forces at work with funding from governments, the very corporations they are supposedly aimed at thwarting (Google the funding given to 'green' groups by the likes of Shell and BP).

The WWF and Greenpeace are both, by any standards, huge corporations with highly paid executives, massive pension funds and all the rest of the corporate baggage. A sensible position is to treat them with exactly the same degree of scepticism that one would a large company.

It's much the same with the food scares we regularly see repeated like holy writ on this forum, flip-flopped every few years as moods change (to mention just a few; eggs, saturated fats, fish oils, vitamin supplements, salt etc etc). It's just not safe to assume that food is or isn't safe simply because a body with a 'green' image says so.

Palm oil is just one example.

This is a quality rant, please can I quote it in it's entirety elsewhere or would I need to pay you ?

gnvqsos

A._Badger wrote: »

Are you disputing the pennies or the principle?

The EU alone has bunged £75 million to 'green' lobbying groups in recent years.

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/2012/06/research-british-taxpayers-fund-environmentalist-campaigns-75m-eu-programme.html

The WWF receives a reported $400 million every year and is always on the lookout for more:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7488629/WWF-hopes-to-find-60-billion-growing-on-trees.html

Far from the 'cuddly hippy doing it for the children' image they like to portray, there are murky forces at work with funding from governments, the very corporations they are supposedly aimed at thwarting (Google the funding given to 'green' groups by the likes of Shell and BP).

The WWF and Greenpeace are both, by any standards, huge corporations with highly paid executives, massive pension funds and all the rest of the corporate baggage. A sensible position is to treat them with exactly the same degree of scepticism that one would a large company.

It's much the same with the food scares we regularly see repeated like holy writ on this forum, flip-flopped every few years as moods change (to mention just a few; eggs, saturated fats, fish oils, vitamin supplements, salt etc etc). It's just not safe to assume that food is or isn't safe simply because a body with a 'green' image says so.

Palm oil is just one example.

I read this in last week's Guardian,although it was written as a parody I believe.

sharond101

Ruth_honey wrote: »

I had some from B&M ages ago, then it disappeared from the shelves for months, but went in yesterday & it's back! Maybe your local will get stock in soon?

The resurgence of Kernel King is a huge disappointment as Poundworld and Poundland both have it now too but it tastes awful, apparently it's a new recipe.

A._Badger

gnvqsos wrote: »

I read this in last week's Guardian,although it was written as a parody I believe.

I thought the entirety of the Guardian was a parody?

geordie_joe

gnvqsos wrote: »

Aaron Smith established the church of Later Day Saints aka the morons.

Actually that was Joseph Smith, Aaron Smith formed his own, short lived sect in Voree, Wisconsin around 1846.

I expected you to know that detail,mush.

I expect you didn't.

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A._Badger

geordie_joe wrote: »

gnvqsos wrote: »

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Would you mind editing that, please?

It looks like you're attributing to me what was written by someone else.

You are, of course, right, however.

geordie_joe

A._Badger wrote: »

Would you mind editing that, please?

It looks like you're attributing to me what was written by someone else.

You are, of course, right, however.

Sorry, post now edited.

gnvqsos

geordie_joe wrote: »

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Blimey.I shall have to relearn my history of the Mormons now!

geordie_joe

gnvqsos wrote: »

Blimey.I shall have to relearn my history of the Mormons now!

Well since you thought Aaron Smith established the church of Later Day Saints, you clearly never learned it in the first place.

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