Food air miles

Sir, – My local supermarket is selling apples from France, the Netherlands, South Africa and 18,000km-away New Zealand.

Lucky for Earth, there were Irish apples there too. I bought those instead.

Despite Mother Nature’s outstanding resilience and mankind’s intelligence and innovation, I’m not optimistic we’re going to pull this trick off.

– Yours, etc,

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KEN KELLER,

Sandymount,

Dublin 4.