Black Friday exposes the dark heart of consumerism

We’re living in a time of ‘savage capitalism’ and not only can the small retailers, with their rates and rents not keep up, but neither can we, the boys and girls, insects and animals, men and women, who must inhabit this earth for as long as she will have us, writes Joyce Fegan

I WAS grocery shopping this week. I always shop with a list, a list dictated by the meals I’m going to cook. Soup was on the menu and I needed carrots. It wasn’t like I needed papayas, which are not grown here. I needed carrots, so I looked for Irish ones.