"Doug" <jagmad@riseup.net> wrote in message
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> On 13 Jan, 04:44, "Depresion" <127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> "Doug" <jag...@riseup.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:e5ce462d-ea2f-4f1a-811c-ced023d767b4@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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>>
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>> > What do you mean by 'insist'. Like you I use imported foods, the
>> > difference being that I accept that it is necessary while you seem to
>> > be in denial.
>>
>> It isn't necessary, I don't eat imported food, virtualy everything I eat
>> was
>> grow, prepared and sold within a 10 mile radious of where I live
>>
> Yeh sure!
Well, we're the same as Depresion.
We buy all our food from local farmers, and a local market served by farmers
based in this area.
> So you don't eat oranges and a wide range of fruit and veg
> in winter and you don't use old-fashioned methods of food preservation
> and instead use an energy intensive deep freeze, so how do you manage
> to stay healthy? Food has been imported for centuries and before that
> here people used to die from starvation in winter. Is that what you
> really want, hypocrite?
You really are a pathetic
>>(the
>> exeption being some fish, but that's still farmed in the UK mainland). We
>> are
>> quite capable of eating a healthy diet on foods grown in the UK, we have
>> more
>> than enough farm land to acomidate the population, indeed much of it
>> isn't in
>> use because people have chosen to eat imported food primeraly as to have
>> out
>> of season fruit and veg.
>>
> Something you seem to overlook is that some stuff grown in heated
> greenhouses here in winter need more energy than food imported from
> warmer climes, including the small amount of energy used for its bulk
> transportation.
You really are a pathetic
> Oh yes and...
"and" nothing. You've had your say ... hypocrite.
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