On 10/02/2008, Relata Refero refero.relata@gmail.com wrote:
The article is even littered with unqualified fictional statements such as "In the Rhubarb Triangle (a triangle made up of the 3 cities of Leeds, Bradford & Wakefield in West Yorkshire), rhubarb grows so quickly, you can hear it grow."
Fictional, is it? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/art...
Try reading that again and comparing it to the statement I quoted above. They do not correspond.
The corrected sentence would read as: "In a small number of farms in Leeds, Bradford & Wakefield in West Yorkshire, the farmers use zero-light growth sheds to accelerate the growth of rhubarb. In the quiet environment of the sheds it is possible to hear stalk buds bursting open."
I guess you wouldn't mind, then, if I was to add this to an article somewhere:
"In a 500 km² area northwest of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, animals grow so fast that they can gain an additional 400 pounds in 3-4 months."[1]
Person, meet Google. Google, meet person.
Oh please.
[1] [[Feedlot]], [[Feedlot Alley]]