The British Food Journal Volume 60 Issue 7 1958

Abstract

In a recent food case, heard before a local bench (the actual details being of no special interest or importance for our present purpose), the defendant concerned, very naively, and no doubt quite unwittingly, delivered a most profound remark in the course of his statement, throwing an illuminating beam on the dark workings of the minds of those who find themselves up against the law, and one that could well serve as part of a general confession for that too large company who have spent and, we fear, still spend time in attempting, to a greater or lesser extent, its evasion. The individual in question, the owner of a pretty miserable kind of business, said, gesturing defiantly, we imagine, at the local inspectorate in court, that “his shop could make money if he was left alone and not interfered with”. This, of course, is a basic idea in most wrong‐doing, although it is a senti‐ment probably more often thought inwardly than publicly expressed, by anti‐socially minded people from time immemorial, whether honest adulterators of food, sophisticators of drugs, pickpockets, or merely evaders of the just demands of the Inland Revenue.

Citation

(1958), "The British Food Journal Volume 60 Issue 7 1958", British Food Journal, Vol. 60 No. 7, pp. 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011556