Comments on: Cutting the mustard

By: Duvets

Duvets — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:00:32 +0000

THis sounds way good.

By: Martin Budden

Martin Budden — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:16:44 +0000

Bad as the Mustard Oil Conspiracy is, there is nothing new in a government giving exclusive production rights to a commercial entity. As you know the artisanal production of salt was banned in India – exclusive rights were granted to the East India Company. I believe that there used to be extensive restrictions on the milling of flour in parts of Europe. More recently the EU, under health grounds, has banned butchers from slaughtering animals. Various countries have restrictions on the sale of unpasteurized milk and cheese. These are just the things that immediately come to mind, I’m sure there are many others.

By: Bruce Lewin

Bruce Lewin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:48:40 +0000

I’ve always found a wonderful fish dish preferrable to arguing over IPR ;-)

Very tasty!

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:32:41 +0000

JP – The Mustard Oil Conspiracy is very scary reading. Monsanto are hardly a well liked Co. here in the UK but that really stinks.

The Fish recipe looks great – could you suggest a more readily available alternative to Hilsa for my local fishmonger or supermarket?

By: JP

JP — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:29:40 +0000

Thanks Shefaly. I’ve always considered the blog as somewhere I can expose my thoughts “provisionally”, somewhere where I can refine and hone and improve those thoughts via comments. So in a way the more amorphous the thoughts, the more likely it is that I’ll blog about it.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:37:44 +0000

JP:

I wrote something yesterday which refers to ‘intent’ and ‘societal contract’. Although narrowed down to a strategy context, it is more broadly applicable I think. Sometime if I can find time to elaborate, I will probably write another post/ essay. I referred a post of yours as one of my favourite reads related to the topic (one desultory philippic..)

Upon reading this post however, I am wondering about how culture and societal contract overlap and where they don’t. Worth more exploration.

Your blog always makes me think (and makes me bold to write what I would normally think too complex to write; I don’t always publish those pieces but that day will come too). :-)