pooley wrote: It was a fairly glib comment I made
but making a really valid point. As Monbiot says, there are people who'd only drink fairtrade coffee and look down their nose at anyone doing otherwise, while hoofing *up* their nose with some of the most barbarically produced substances imaginable.
It's kind of like an ethical counterpart to the way a lot of countercultural folks don't trust pharmaceutical medicines or chemical foodstuffs, but are quite happy to swallow illegal drugs that could be made from and cut with all kinds of cack.
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