A Message In A Bottle

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A Message In A Bottle · Page 18

Jars of milk and a bunch of beetroot sit on a market stall, with a cat and the seller’s legs behind them.

The authorities said, “Don’t eat the vegetables, they are poisoned because the soil is contaminated; don’t eat the mushrooms or the animals”.

The grandmothers ate their vegetables because that’s what they had always done and because that’s all they had to eat.

People still grew their crops and sold their milk and grain.

Then the authorities changed the labels so that no one would know where it came from; nobody would panic.