Liberty cabbage – Feedback’s cure for bird flu
OUR main theme this week is cabbage – and a saga of devotion to the truth even when it flies in the face of sacred symbols of national identity.
Last year Korean scientists reported that their national dish, the spicy fermented cabbage called kimchi, cured infected chickens of bird flu. Those who know the depths of passion and loyalty with which Koreans regard the dish, which they regularly polish off three times a day, were hardly surprised. But now, in a flourish of disinterested reductionism, scientists at Seoul National University report that it is…
