Imagine if they taught philosophy in schools. :-)

Yes that’s the “real living wage”, calculated by the Resolution Foundation on behalf of the Living Wage Foundation. “Real” is misleading because it is often used to signify something that is price level deflated in economics.

Isn’t it the erroneously named “real” living wage which is £12.60? The national living wage is £12.21?

Surely a company recommended by #r4today favourite #SirJohnSawers would have the highest ethical standards?

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“There is no way this will go wrong!” 😒 #r4today

Yep. Although the obvious answer for most people is just to stop using it.

It may have been less hassle as well as being life enhancing in general, just to stop using Facebook?

Or wolves.

Where is OFCOM on all this?

The languages, diversity, different cuisines, and cultures they bring, isn’t a positive externality then?

Well we need trade deals with somebody. Full membership of the single market would be first best but not looking likely.

Welfare standards, I think, were lower in much of 🇪🇺 too? 🇩🇰 pigs etc? I prefer to eat humanely reared meat, but I don’t see why I have a right to impose higher welfare standards on other consumers who might have different preferences? Particularly when 🇩🇰 bacon is so ubiquitous in the UK?

There are lots of reasons to avoid processed food with dubious provenance of the meat. Beef could be horse meat etc. Acetic acid is fairly low on my list. If consumers become scared of poorly labelled processed food and avoid it, that would probably be no bad thing.

“Data used for the study suggests that the region containing the US, Cuba and Canada has a higher rate of salmonella but a lower rate of campylobacter than the region containing developed European countries including the UK.”