"Shipping is so cheap that it makes more……" — Rose George
"Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters."
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45 Quotes by Rose George
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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know…
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is…
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