Patrick's Perfect Pancake
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Patrick's Perfect Pancake
I'm in two minds about this book. The story is entertaining - about a chef who takes up farming and whose animals, being free-range, produce such wonderful milk and eggs that Patrick's pancakes win the Queen's competition for the best in the land. Well told and nicely illustrated, the anti factory farming message is not too unsubtle. It is, however, over simplistic: profit and productivity are the villains, free-range food is described as 'happier tasting' (whatever that is) and at the end all the baddie farmers let their animals loose and everyone lives happily ever after. Is this an entirely fair message to pass on to young children? Surely, even organic farmers have some concern for profit and productivity?

