A Time of Magic

Although the closest that most people get to animal farming is when they pick up a steak in the supermarket in fact it’s a massive market worldwide. That’s easy to see if you look at the source of the various cuts on display in a large supermarket of course.

However, it’s a strange market on the whole and selling cattle supplies as whilst the market itself is very large, the companies at the production end of the supply chain are made up of a massive number of small businesses ie farms. Sure there are large farms too but they’re generally outweighed by the very large number of fairly small outfits.

This kind of market structure means that sales to the companies (ie the farms) are treated almost as normal consumer sales with the associated online sales that you would expect these days. Relatively small orders are the norm in many countries albeit with quite large orders from some of the producers.

In the area where I’m living at the moment, there are loads of groups of bikers passing by almost the whole year long.

Why? Simple, it’s the windy roads through the various mountain passes and relative lack of traffic which attracts them. Every weekend throughout the year you’ll see clumps of bikers sitting outside some cafe or heading off into the mountains on everything including used Harleys, ridiculously overloaded BMWs and teensy weansy little bikes that look very small when parked beside the big guys.

Let’s face it, we’re all getting older but none of us really want it to show, do we?

That’s led to a massive industry that covers everything from fitness clubs to reduce those sagging bit to lotions & potions to do something about the sagging bits on our faces. Whilst many of us are either too busy or, frankly, too lazy to do much on the exercise front at least we can do something easily enough on the wrinkle from with top wrinkle creams that’ll cover up all those cracks and even some that have been shown to do something or other somewhat deeper to actually slow down the arrival of the wrinkles in the first place.

Now, “all” you need to do is get that credit card out…