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The East African - Business Agenda

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The food miles debate that threw Kenya’s flower industry into a spin at the beginning of 2007 has finally fizzled out as UK supermarkets have dropped their initial hardline stance. According to Ron Fasol, managing director of Oserian Development Company, a leading flower exporter, although this may not have been publicly acknowledged, the food miles debate has flopped and is unlikely to resurface — unless Africa reaches the high pollution levels of the developed world. The plane symbols put on imported produce by leading UK supermarkets Tesco and Marks & Spencer have been replaced by Kenya’s “Grown Under the Sun” label which, according to Kenya Flower Council chief executive Jane Ngige, has led to increased interest in Kenya produce and a subsequent surge in earnings.

In other words, despite all the mass propaganda, the British people couldn't give a flying fig about carbon footprints.

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steve fowler

I never did give a **** about this bloody carbon footprint ****.

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Hartlepool

Robinson Crusoe was concerned about a footprint I think.

He must have been a bustard LIB-DEM.

Baron von Lotsov

The food miles thing is interesting because you see unfortunately for the UN globalists the food miles business gets in the way of their master plan. So we have more hypocrisy when they say shipping stuff half way around the world is not contributing much to the plant food footprint. One runt of a globalist put it at 2%. Anyway around this area food miles is the only thing we agree with as it is a farming area and the farmers are being screwed by the government so they love this idea and hate windmills and all the rest of it.

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