Food and Politics

You want me to what? Talk about Delia? Oh, alright then.

The Queen of cookery, she who taught us how to boil an egg, is now insisting that some eggs should be reared in battery farms so that poor people can eat them.

And this week there has been an awful lot said about battery farms and their neccesity compared with the distress they cause to millions of chickens.

All said and doen, however, it's the mothers I feel sorry for.

The mothers of young children who not only have to worry about whether their children will grow to be intelligent, good looking, wise and intellectual; but also whether that dress will make them look fat so that their husbands' eyes never venture beyond the waist; or whether the bath is running for the children, or whether they have enough time to make dinner and fit that yoga class in before the children come back from school. Yes, now these women have one more thing to worry about. Whether that chicken they picked up at the supermarket is actually cornfed.

Battery farms and wrong and miserable chickens don't taste nice - fact. Organic food is expensive and therefore only a realistic option for the middle class or highly ambitious working class - fact.

Food should be about food and not about politics - fact

I'll never dislike Delia because she taught me how to make super roast potatoes - fact.