Madam, – Tim Bracken (June 25th) has added another letter to the corpus of recent letters bemoaning the exotic origins of fruit, vegetables and flowers sold in Irish supermarkets.
I’m curious if there are any other people in favour of increasing unemployment and poverty in the developing world or is it only okay for flower-growers in Kenya to grow fair-trade coffee and not green beans? We are in the middle of a recession, supermarkets source there produce from the cheapest sources available, ipso facto buying Irish would be more expensive.
Personally I do not like wasting money on inefficient production of fruit and vegetables. There are already enough ways to waste money in this country without adding another.
What does the IFA think? I am not qualified to answer, but if I guessed it is something about subsidies, how wrong would I be? – Yours, etc,