You can’t win

The best bit of today was coming round the corner of a hill in Lyme Park and seeing the distant towers of Manchester with their heads poking above the mist. Sorry I do not have an adequate picture of this at the moment. J may be able to supply one in due course.

Often you can’t win with bananas. At least our local shop has fairtrade bananas (some don’t) – but the fairtrade ones have to be organic. I don’t know about the specific case of bananas, but on the whole ISTR organic produce is bad for global warming, because yields are generally lower, therefore it needs more land to feed the same number of people, land which might otherwise be put to a more atmosphere-friendly use. OTOH, who wants loads of excess fertilisers in their rivers, which is what you get when conventional production is mismanaged. Also you might point out the potential gains in releasing land, to say nothing of feeding more people, by simply not wasting food.

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