Funny old world part 483

Socially acceptable reasons not to fly on holiday:

being afraid of the plane crashing (probability – v. low indeed).

Reasons not to fly on holiday that make people look at you as if you have three heads:

being afraid it’ll f*ck up our climate even further (probability – pretty much definite, according to anyone with any scientific credibility).

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Socially acceptable reasons to be choosy about what and where you eat:

religion, squeamishness, mad faddy diets.

Reasons to be choosy about what and where you eat that make people look at you as if you have three heads:

not thinking chickens or pigs should be incarcerated, preferring vegetables that don’t destroy the earth they’re grown in or require lashings of fossil fuel to get them from a seed in a field to a vegetable on your plate, quite wanting your grandchildren to be able to have a go at using the planet too.

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Funny old world.