The erosion of trust

Very perceptive article by Gary Younge in today's Guardian about the erosion of trust vis-a-vis the elite vs the rest of us:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/27/we-ought-to-care-beyonce-faked-it

The old-fashioned term for this is corruption.  Everything has been corrupted and degraded, so that authenticity and honestly are now remarkable.  This is not, however, the first society that has become rotten (rotten from within like a very beautiful piece of ripe fruit that preserves intact a brittle outer skin of glossy perfection but inside has degraded into a corrupt sweet mush that is being devoured by parasites).

Talking about the corruption of the foodchain with horsemeat Gary Younge says:  "British consumers were given contaminated meat courtesy of foreign farmers, pliant retailers and lax regulations."

And as I read this I thought of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson telling us we may as well get used to eating GM food as it is already in the food chain (and his department has done nothing about it and, it would seem, does not intend to do anything about it apart from lecture us on how wrong we are to choose what we will eat and what we will not eat).