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and stuff with palm oil

I read something that suggested the alternatives are worse in terms of deforestation required per tonne of product. Could be bollocks of course but could be right.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:04 pm
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Lever Bros (Sunlight soap) built the Port Sunlight village to house the workers. The children grew up bigger and healthier, the village was shown as an example to visiting royalty etc.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:07 pm
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Though of course you can do something that’s good for you and for your employees. Paralells with the contemporary interest in employee wellbeing.

Overall, I agree that philanthropic industrialists provided far better working and living conditions than was the norm. But I would point out that this was often achieved by exerting a great deal of control over their workers and families.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:15 pm
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I read something that suggested the alternatives are worse in terms of deforestation required per tonne of product. Could be bollocks of course but could be right.

There was a thing on where some supermarket were looking for a palm oil substitute for their pastry.

The only thing that worked nearly as well was… lard.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:15 pm
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That’s fine by me!


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:23 pm
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Or because keeping their workers in tied houses without access to alcohol made them more productive.

Or because on the whole the RSOF are decent people who try to live ethically.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:24 pm
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Or because on the whole the RSOF are decent people who try to live ethically.

Possibly. Which was my point.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:31 pm
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Cotic innit


 
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So, what colour is the boathouse in Hereford?

Well, that is the question.


 
Posted : 11/06/2019 11:54 pm
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I’ve seen William Penn’s father’s grave, I thought it was in Hereford but apparently I’m wrong it’s in Bristol.

Not sure where his grave is, but north of Bath, on the A46, there is the village of Pennsylvania, which I believe is named after William Penn, and from which the American state gets its name.


 
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