Thursday, September 14, 2006

KILLER STRAWBERRIES

The National Consumer Council is generally unimpressed with the environmental friendliness of Britain's leading supermarket chains:
Waitrose, with one of the most affluent customer bases, is praised for selling Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fish; for employing helpful, informed counter staff and offering a good range of organic foods. But although it has a good variety of in-season vegetables, it also sells the highest proportion of air-freighted fruit, including apricots, strawberries and blueberries from New Zealand. The carbon emissions from air-freighting one small punnet of out-of-season strawberries from New Zealand are equivalent to 11 school runs in the car, the council says.
Get lives you moronic busybodies.

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