Archive for April 12th, 2007

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Local is the new organic

April 12, 2007

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Out of curiosity we have visited each of the three major supermarket chains here precisely one time each – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose. We noticed what we temporarily thought was a positive abundance of organic food at each. Then we noticed that the capsicums were from Israel, the tomatoes from Australia, the chickens from Turkey! In a carbon emissions-conscious country what is this madness?