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POPSSupermarket counters credit crunch
Anti-capitalism campaigner George Monbiot responded immediately to the unexpected development and quickly threw his weight behind the initiative. ‘While it’s gratifying to be proved right about the imminent collapse of the morally redundant Western economic model, I’ve just got an update on the state of my pension plan,’ he explained, ‘and I’m going to need to watch every penny if I’m not going to be surviving my twilight years on dog food.’ Other supermarkets, meanwhile, have criticised Asda for not going far enough. Sainsbury’s highlighted their previous commitment to Comic Relief at the launch of their ‘You’ve Done Your Bit’ range of low-cost fruit and un-ethical coffees, and the Co-Op also reversed its previous commitment to ‘expensive and overly-bureaucratic’ animal welfare standards, with the unveiling of its ‘Look, They’re Just Chickens’ battery eggs, and its ‘Best Not to Ask..’ sausages, retailing at 20p per kilo. The homeless man who sells the Big Issue outside Tesco’s i
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