Re: German ban similar to London.

In article <fd5080d2-3de4-4a9a-bf8a-32bc773cc5f7
@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, Doug says...

> Yeh sure! 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've already been proven to be completely wrong on this several 
times. Just give up.

> >(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.
> 
> Oh yes and...
> 
We managed to survive for millennia on the native crops.

-- 
Conor

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.