I know we import fruit and veg from some far off countries, but this was a new one on me (along with Indian baby corn).
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Harvested by Slave peasants would be moor appropriate!Must be good quality when harvested by hand is in largest print!
Getting that message over is more important than the fact the pack contains sugar snap peas!
All veg from third world countries is harvested by people poorer than you who get paid a lot less than you. That’s how it works i’ve got 400 people on a 1000 acres. Today i’d make as good a living growing wheat and potatoes as export veg. Unfortunately i’d have to lay off 399 people who would have no jobs and no money and wouldn’t be able to buy the products from my farm. It isn’t simple. If you want to grow Mange-Tout the supermarkets will take English before foreign. As for DNBP and Metasystox on it i doubt it all veg for UK from anywhere is subject to UK regulations re crop production products and residue levels. We are at 50% testing on all our beans. As for UKs carbon footprint i have no idea but all our veg travels on passenger planes which would probably fly anyway."HARVESTED BY HAND" ......
......... by some poor Chinese peasant, who gets paid peanuts, probably been sprayed with DNPB and Meatasystox ( and/or other stuff even worse), chilled and packed, flown half way round the world at half the price we can grow 'em for.
"GLOBALISATION, CUTTING THE UK's CARBON FOOTPRINT AT A STOKE" ( ....and fecking up a farmer near you).
.......oh, I guess they missed that bit off the packaging
So if someone is flying back from Kenya it should be no surprise to them to see a bag of veg strapped in the seat next to them ?All veg from third world countries is harvested by people poorer than you who get paid a lot less than you. That’s how it works i’ve got 400 people on a 1000 acres. Today i’d make as good a living growing wheat and potatoes as export veg. Unfortunately i’d have to lay off 399 people who would have no jobs and no money and wouldn’t be able to buy the products from my farm. It isn’t simple. If you want to grow Mange-Tout the supermarkets will take English before foreign. As for DNBP and Metasystox on it i doubt it all veg for UK from anywhere is subject to UK regulations re crop production products and residue levels. We are at 50% testing on all our beans. As for UKs carbon footprint i have no idea but all our veg travels on passenger planes which would probably fly anyway.
Only in economy. I object to paying business class for broccoli.So if someone is flying back from Kenya it should be no surprise to them to see a bag of veg strapped in the seat next to them ?
All veg from third world countries is harvested by people poorer than you who get paid a lot less than you. That’s how it works i’ve got 400 people on a 1000 acres. Today i’d make as good a living growing wheat and potatoes as export veg. Unfortunately i’d have to lay off 399 people who would have no jobs and no money and wouldn’t be able to buy the products from my farm. It isn’t simple. If you want to grow Mange-Tout the supermarkets will take English before foreign. As for DNBP and Metasystox on it i doubt it all veg for UK from anywhere is subject to UK regulations re crop production products and residue levels. We are at 50% testing on all our beans. As for UKs carbon footprint i have no idea but all our veg travels on passenger planes which would probably fly anyway.
What about cauliflower?Only in economy. I object to paying business class for broccoli.
And those "ample" people on the plane defo aren’t eating the veg sitting underneath them. Maybe if they started eating the veg and actually lost some weight it might reduce the fuel needed and therefore reduce the emissions of the whole aviation industry.I don't want to start a row about your business model, employing poor people - who if you didn't employ them might well be inbound here on a rubber boat already for all we know- however....
Passenger planes - indeed any commercial flights- afaik are costed principally by weight. KGs- indeed, notice attempts to find ways to make 'the more amply proportioned' pay more.
Freight is cheaper cos is doesn't need warm pressured up air, a reclining seat, and a cardboard meal, but....
if your produce wasn't on the pane, it'd be less likely to fly.
In fact, to satisfy curiosity.... can you tell us the cost?
As Mark Twain said “a cauliflower is only a cabbage with a college degree”, so you’d think it would expect to travel 1st class.What about cauliflower?