I haven't shopped regularly in a supermarket for seven years. My moment of truth came on a commercial farm in East Africa where I saw green beans and other vegetables being harvested for a well-known supermarket supplier.
The crops were sprayed and irrigated, but behind the scenes, at the back of the farm where the farm workers lived, there was one water tap for more than 100 people, and no toilet facilities. Nor could their children go to school; the farm was too isolated.
Food production in many places is like this - the crops better cared for than the people who harvest them. And then the produce is encased in plastic, flown to the UK, and carted across the country in giant lorries - global warming gone mad.
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