Call Number:

151

URL:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2239989,00.html

Abstract:

A couple of years ago, during the recording of a food quiz on Radio 4, I listened to food writer and TV personality Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall declare that he thought nobody should eat meat unless it had been reared in a completely free-range manner. One of the other contestants - Stephen Fry, as it happens - pointed out that free-range meat is very expensive and that not everybody could afford it. 'Well,' Fearnley-Whittingstall said confidently, 'there are always the cheaper cuts.' I was appalled and immediately reminded of the great line attributed to Marie Antoinette. For 'let them eat cake', read 'let them eat braising steak'.