The latest veg country of origin
- Thread starter Sausage
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Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
I saw some Onions a few weeks ago labelled up from China. Just trying to remember where. Might have been Lidl.
- Location
- N.Lincs
"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
......... 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
Harvested by Slave peasants would be moor appropriate!
- Location
- Highland
B&M has tinned veg from there. I am trying to imagine a way to harvest pea pods other than by hand!
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
Morrisons also had some pre packed veg labelled 'China' last week. And 'Guatamala'.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
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 ?
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Only in economy. I object to paying business class for broccoli.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Then some number cruncher somewhere will declare the veg as carbon neutral because the plane was flying anyway.
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?
What about cauliflower?
There is quite a lot of supermarket garlic that is labelled as product of China. When I worked in a commercial kitchen most of the fish we used was labelled as produce of China, even cod caught in the North Atlantic.
China, for some time now, has been securing supplies of many primary food products in many different countries.
China, for some time now, has been securing supplies of many primary food products in many different countries.
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.
The flight would also be cheaper, reducing the cost of flying the veg so they could afford to eat more of it. A virtuous circle. Win win.
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.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Hmm, hand picked veg. 50% of the money that we get for these broad beans is spent on the labour to pick them.
I wonder what the percentage is in other parts of the world?
I wonder what the percentage is in other parts of the world?