Comments on: Buy Happy Flowers On The Way Home http://greenmonk.net/buy-happy-flowers-on-the-way-home/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:10:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: monkchips http://greenmonk.net/buy-happy-flowers-on-the-way-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2600 monkchips Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:19:55 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=112#comment-2600 You tell me, Ludo. Don't you read the provenance labels *before* you buy food? You tell me, Ludo. Don’t you read the provenance labels *before* you buy food?

]]> By: Ludovic Windsor http://greenmonk.net/buy-happy-flowers-on-the-way-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2599 Ludovic Windsor Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:26:02 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=112#comment-2599 I usually cook a nice seafood dinner for my better half on Valentines, the idea is to avoid the flower cliché and the queues of idiots who only go to the florist once a year. So this year I bought some oysters, scallops, leeks and asparagus, and some gambas too. Back home, I figured out it was a real orgy -a food miles orgy that was. Apart from the wine I brought back from France (little more foodmiles) and the oysters that came from Ireland, everything had an exotic provenance. The Sainsbury's SOrganic asparagus came from Thailand (now, the SO were cheaper than normal ones but is that not a stretch of the mind than putting an organic label on air-freighted veggies???), the the baby leeks from Egypt (where else?), the Scallops from the US (confirmed my preconception that american seafood isn't the best by far), the Gambas were fished somewhere in the Indian ocean. What's wrong with the world? I usually cook a nice seafood dinner for my better half on Valentines, the idea is to avoid the flower cliché and the queues of idiots who only go to the florist once a year.

So this year I bought some oysters, scallops, leeks and asparagus, and some gambas too. Back home, I figured out it was a real orgy -a food miles orgy that was. Apart from the wine I brought back from France (little more foodmiles) and the oysters that came from Ireland, everything had an exotic provenance.
The Sainsbury’s SOrganic asparagus came from Thailand (now, the SO were cheaper than normal ones but is that not a stretch of the mind than putting an organic label on air-freighted veggies???), the the baby leeks from Egypt (where else?), the Scallops from the US (confirmed my preconception that american seafood isn’t the best by far), the Gambas were fished somewhere in the Indian ocean.

What’s wrong with the world?

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