I learn this morning that the British Vegetable Society (BVS, not to be confused with BVI, the British Virgin Islands), is considering High Court action about the amount of micro-meat in the atmosphere of most of the large supermarkets operated by Tesco's and Sainsbury's.
It seems that the density of such particles, mainly between 5µm and 15µm in diameter, mainly derived from the outside of the packages of fresh and near-fresh meat, has increased over the years and is now of the order of 6,000 particles per cubic metre of air in most of said supermarkets. There are no warning signs, no clean areas and lawyers acting for the BVS will, no doubt, argue that at this level, the human rights of their members have been compromised.
The government will, no doubt, be considering its position. Does the DPP need to get involved? Do we need a retired judge to take charge? Do the scientists at Porton Down need to take time off from decontaminating door knobs to think about building bacteria who will eat the stuff on the fly?
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