Posts by Russell Brown
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You could probably say the same thing about Stephen Franks :-)
Indeed! How extraordinary.
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This just in in scandal news: Peter Verschaffelt's meth manufacture charge finally gets to court.
He's also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and is representing himself.
Now there's a fall from grace.
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For sprinting fascism conducted with indecent haste, they're sure taking their time about it.
I laughed out loud at Duncan Garner last night saying "Labour is demanding to know why the process is taking so long".
I think they're actually demanding something else altogether -- like, say, the opposite -- but whatever ...
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Quite. And it hurts having to pay $20 for a size 14 free-range corn-fed at the local supermarket. My partner and I pick one up every couple of months, but mostly chicken is off the menu.
Proof of what I said above about bloody supermarkets.
If you can't get to Westmere, the deli at Devonport has excellent free-range chickens, and the Mad Butcher often has the Rangitikei birds frozen for under $10.
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Free range chicken meat is hard to find, unless you live in Ponsonby.
It's improving, but I get the impression that the supermarket chains have no interest in making it happen.
The Westmere butcher is now stocking twin-packs of the Rangitikei Game Birds corn-fed free-range chooks for $16, which is pretty good. They've been frozen, and the company is owned by Tegel (so they'll have been filled up with antibiotics), and they're not nearly as good at the birds the butcher gets direct, but they're a big improvement on supermarket chicken.
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I am not a moral crusader for the vege lobby: I am not moral enough or veggie enough. I just think that if you want pigs to be happy you should think about not eating them; which is not a threadjack, but a logical progression in the discussion.
Yes, it is, and I expected someone to raise it.
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In other words, the Dworkinite school of feminism. It's been theorised that such people have more in common with theo-cons than the feminist movement.
That would be a harsh generalisation, but Dworkin herself certainly got on with the theocons later in life.
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I'm fairly sure that we don't import much pork, and that local free-range meat would be cheaper than factory farmed dead pig hauled here from overseas.
I actually don't think you're right. Cheap pork products at retail are quite likely to contain cheap, imported factory meat. That was the subject of the campaign I mentioned above.
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I would love to see Chinese pork banned, but pigs don't vote and they don't hire expensive lobbyists.
Interestingly, the Pork Board has recently campaigned against the use of imported pork meat, but that's been undone by the exposure of some of its own practices. If they put aside the PR until they fix their own house, they'll have a much better story to tell.
BTW, I know the board's PR adviser: busy week for that person, I'd think.
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I couldn't believe it when I saw Mike King doing this. I have since raised my thoughts of him.
You know, I wasn't looking forward to having him on last week's Media7, given his reputation for being a dick in the past.
But he's sober and sincere and he brought a hell of a lot to the show. I like the sober Mike King a lot.
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