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Greenpeace on McDonald’s suppliers using illegally cleared land in the Amazon:
“New Greenpeace research has shown that McDonald’s are partners in forest crime that is creating a trail of destruction right into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The chicken they sell is fed on soya grown in areas of the Amazon that have been illegally cleared. This means that every time you buy a Chicken McNugget, you’re taking a bite out of the Amazon.
We want McDonald’s to tell their suppliers they will not buy animals that have been reared on soya that comes from the Amazon rainforest.”
You can send a comment to McDonald’s via the Greenpeace site.
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Two fun links: the Lonely Planet cities game and the V&A ‘Create your own modernist poster’ site.
I went to see Waiting for Godot at the Barbican last night. It was an excellent performance and I’d recommend it if you’re in London.
Johnny Murphy was perfectly physically embodied as Estragon. Barry McGovern as Vladimir was more ‘actorly’ though I think he had the more difficult role as he had to express a greater awareness of the external world and eventually of the futility of their wait. It’s difficult to know what to say about the staging and lighting because I think Beckett left quite detailed instructions, but they were simple and effective.
In a weird way, the whole thing made me very glad I’m not a teenager anymore. I was such an angst-ridden nihilist, struggling with an existentialist crisis, and plays like this didn’t help. I guess the external validation was good, but it’s nice not to care so much anymore.
“He didn’t like Led Zeppelin or The Clash but I don’t think there was any need to tell the police.” (“Clash Song Terror Alert” from Sky News)
I came across two good archaeology blogs today, Past Thinking, and archaeoblog (because it listed April Fools stories).
Since it’s doing the rounds… Where the fscking hell are you?
“The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.” (Observer)