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Mar. 8th, 2007 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
By contrast, here's Orwell writing decades before the organic and slow food movements, not to mention globalisation:
"As you can see by looking at any greengrocer's shop, what the majority of English people mean by an apple, is a lump of highly-coloured cotton wool from America or Australia; they will devour these things, apparently with pleasure, and let the English apples rot under the trees. It is the shiny, standardised, machine-made look of the American apple that appeals to them; the superior taste of the English apple is something they simply do not notice."
"As you can see by looking at any greengrocer's shop, what the majority of English people mean by an apple, is a lump of highly-coloured cotton wool from America or Australia; they will devour these things, apparently with pleasure, and let the English apples rot under the trees. It is the shiny, standardised, machine-made look of the American apple that appeals to them; the superior taste of the English apple is something they simply do not notice."