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Old 11-12-2008, 06:35 PM
Elspeth Elspeth is offline
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Originally Posted by Jo of Palatine View Post
And I wonder how much it costs to fly freshly caught tuna to the sushi-restaurants around the world. Or to ship fresh asparagus from Peru to europe. Or deliver strawberries to the shops for Christmas.... Are we all wasteful? Yes we are. But at least Charles does it to promote British products while we just enjoy the "good selection" of food in our supermarkets.
Well, but unless the British pheasant market is looking for export opportunities (at which point it'll just be a case of people wanting to enjoy the good selection of imported food), I'm not sure what he was promoting.