Cannibal Rampage

The Times published an article last week on the very real threat of global famine and the causes behind it (climate change, population growth, wealth growth & changing tastes in China, meat production, resultant hoarding of stable foods and cereal by governments and food price hikes).

If you type the word famine into The Times article database, you quickly find a host of articles relating the unsavoury, but historically accurate fact that in times of famine, desperate people have no choice but to turn to cannibalism to survive. 14th Century England, Stalin's USSR, airplanes crashing in the Andes, the list of examples goes on and on...

Clearly an early, controlled, adoption of cannibalism in the Western World (i.e. before we get too desperate) would help control climate change on two fronts: a ready and waiting nutritious food-supply that would dampen population growth. Perhaps we should start with butchering and eating old people?

I can almost see Delia cooking herself on TV.

I'd make a lovely sausage.

Happy Birthday Ellio

The big boy turned two this week. He has a new life-sized singing Noddy, that has instantly become his new best friend. Ellio has already reached the stage of saying "No, BOY!" when I tell him he's "Daddy's BABY!": he is officially no longer a baby.