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ruby wrote: |
It's finding good fruit alternatives for the children that's the challenge. |
Hmmm...
Personally, I don't think that *winter* import of fresh fruit from foreign parts is in itself terribly sinful.
There *are* things that are important to a sensible healthy varied diet that are difficult to source locally.
What offends me is the offering of foreign air freighted produce specifically to compete with what can be quite easily sourced more locally - where tax-free air transport provides an assistance to artificial competitive advantage.
The UK really doesn't have the potential to be self-sufficient in low-input cultivated oranges, lemons, tea, coffee, chocolate, bananas...
Trade is what provides a living for people.
Geographical regions will be particularly suited to particular crops, and unsuited to others. Trade allows those surpluses to be turned into prosperity rather than waste.
IMHO, the important first step is to examine whether there is a local alternative. And if not, then to see how the various transported options might stack up against one's requirements and preferences.
As a side comment, I'll share an ancient 'family joke' or saying... Decades back, a fruit market barrow boy was heard shouting his wares loudly in the street "REAL SEE-VILE ORANGES HERE, NONE OF YOUR FOREIGN DIRT! REAL SEE-VILE ORANGES..." and the phrase "none of your foreign dirt" has been passed down the generations. |
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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