Way to get your own back (for a journalist)

[periwinkle]

 
  Check out the first letter of each sentence in this piece by Stephen Pollard, his last for the paper, having been fired by the editor, Richard Desmond

"Farmers are hardly the most popular group in Britain. Up and down the country areas are blighted by intensive farming practices. Couple this with subsidies the like of which no other industry can dream of and you have a recipe for unpopularity.

Knowledge of organic farming has moved on apace. Years ago, organic farmers were regarded as cranks. On most calculations, their methods were regarded as wasteful and inefficient.

Until now. Destroying the received wisdom, Professor Jules Pretty, head of Essex University's Centre for Environment and Society, has worked out that, in fact, organic farming is cheaper, costing £1.8 billion a year less than intensive farming.

Environmentalists are still sometimes caricatured as unworldly. Sainsbury's, which we praised yesterday for introducing biodegradable packaging, shows that that need not be so. More retailers will, if the Sainsbury's scheme is a success, follow.

Organic farmers, however, receive only £20 million of the £3 billion in farm subsidies. Nothing is more stupid - and, as Prof Pretty shows, self-defeating - than this failure to promote organic farming. Despite this short-termism, the future of farming is now clearly organic."

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That's pretty good

[the.watchman]

That's pretty good

LOL, that's some nice payback

[the.watchman]

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hey i bet you won't get this one

LOL, f-epic for me...