We’re all used to buying Peruvian prunes, Kenyan kiwis and Latvian lemons (well, maybe not) flown to a Waitrose warehouse or, worse still, delivered to your home wrapped in plastic in a diesel-guzzling Ocado van. So Greta’s right, we can blame Peru and Kenya for this, not our greed for non-seasonal fruits. Quite likely, though, unless we get ’great trade deal’ with these exotic fruit producers, we’ll have to, like our forefathers, rely on apple chutney to get us through the winter months.
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
