Rome summit, snail traffic and gm crops

No-one can get away from the grim warnings issued from the Rome world summit today which has announced we need to find extra sources of food over the next few years to feed an ever increasing world popluation. No-one seems to dispute this factor - the only disputation seems to lie in how we actually achieve this world increase in food supplies.

In the meantime in Poitiers protesters made a snail's progress of disruption through the city in order to make a loud statement against rising fuel prices.

One of the arguments raised in the summit today as reported in the local paper was the declaration of some that bio-fuels were helping the world fuel shortage. Others said no - that it was having the opposite effect. And then there were those who slowly but surely were advocating the usage of GM crops as an answer to all the world's problems.

The only bright thing on today's horizon for us was the purchase of more cadbury'ys chocolate from hyper-u and some strong warm sunshine which appeared this afternoon!!