Bread Lines

Predatory Amazon continues to drive local booksellers to the wall and Monsanto eagerly awaits the vote in the Brazilian Parliament giving it permission to introduce its genetically engineered cereal seeds to the farms of South America. The so called 'suicide seeds' will only be fertile for one planting and will not produce viable material for the next harvest, farmers having to go cap in hand to the multinational giant who will control prices. The world yearns for fairness and sustainability! Every measure to resist the rampage of the multinationals should be applauded. So, I heartily cheer and support an enterprising artisan baker in Kenilworth who, despite massive competition from local supermarkets is making delicious bread . He uses some flour ground at a centuries old water powered mill in Charlecote, some of his wheat hailing from a local farm just down the road in the Cotswolds. Mix all this with passion and skill and you have a loaf to drool over. What a template for future sustainability and healthy communities. With examples like Crustum on Priory Road, we could well see the return of a local butchers shop and ...

 maybe another bookshop?