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On 12/9/06 15:49, in article ,
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snip Try the Chilean Montes Alpha range one day.

I can't. I have a policy to only buy stuff which has done no
significant damage to the environment. Chilean is far too far
away in terms of burning carbon.

And I won't shop in TESCO because they are scumbags (JMHO of
which I have evidence should anyone want it).


I'm with you on the air miles but I do like the wine....
OTOH, I don't find it necessary to buy asparagus from Peru.
We get our wine from Majestic, among others.

The wine is good, but it's cheap, I'm sure that's the
planet-destroying reason for the imports. There is almost
certainly a more local market for it. And I am led to believe
that the destruction of the tropical rain forests is in no
small part due to the demand for grape. One day, and very soon
I think with the climate we're experiencing, English wine will
be more than adeqate ...

TESCO sell baby corn and mange tout imported from somewhere in
Africa, Tanzania, I think. I had one once and was very, very
ill with staphyllococcal poisoning, really thought i was going
to die.

If you really must buy it, wash it. In bleach. Or safer, boil
it. Best not to buy anything from them, actually, as they
"pass on all the benefits to their customers". That's why they
made £2B profit last year, I expect. And why all the local
shops are now TESCO express and have pantechnicons permanently
parked outside them, mainly on zebra crossings and traffic
lights, and are otherwise roaring round housing estates
looking for the shop. Grrrrrrr.

Did you mention that 40% of the goods traffic on UK roads is
supplying supermarkets?

No, but only because I didn't know :-)

You haven't read "Not on the Label".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Label-Wh.../dp/0141015667

Read that and you will never eat anything you haven't grown
yourself again, including "organic food".

You don't know where I work, do you :-)

You don't have to eat it, even if it provides your income. :-)

I was glad to see that rotten Dutch chickens are dumped in UK and
not locally :-)

I shall have a read of that book.

Most of it appeared in the Guardian first. Sometimes it is still
available in their archives and sometimes it isn't.

But our products ALL contain what they say
on the tin[1].

and more? :-)

No more, no less. I can tell you which farm it started on, the pesticide
declarations, variety, additives (if any), and all the stuff that goes in is
from farms near here.

I don't eat it myself, because I don't like it :-) But it is what it says it
is.

I make my own, or use partbake, because it keeps for ages without a freezer.
And I don't have a freezer, for reasons that are obvious to me.