Should supermarkets only sell food shipped and not flown in....?

Question

ie ......rice from abroad........ok

.......fruit and veg flown in from abroad.......not ok

....see this....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/jan/19/ethicalbusiness.supermarkets

Answer 1

I agree with Angela from Eastie.  The supermarkets should sell whatever the people want to buy at the best price possible.  I am sick of Greenies, nanny-staters and general busybodies trying to tell everyone else how to live.  It is an infringement upon my personal freedom and an attack on the free market system by a bunch of socialists/Leftists who arrogantly think they know how everyone should live better than the people doing the living.

I know your agenda is the CO2 made by aircraft, but since CO2 is the least factor in the air and since GW is just politically motivated hysteria over a purely natural occurrence I reject your inference.

Answer 2

I think shipping is about as bad as flying. The only way is producing things locally, which some supermarkets are starting to do.

Answer 3

If fruit is produced locally, fine. During the winter and spring you either get it from the Southern Hemisphere or do without. Flying it in allows it to get to you sooner, with less waste. It probably doesn't require all that much fuel when you consider the length of time a ship would be under weigh to get it to you. It balances out.

Answer 4

Ships polute the seas just as much as planes in the sky, what kind of ships do you think they use, canoes!

Answer 5

no beacuse have you seen the state that our seas are in? the only un polluted water is in the north and south poles