Wednesday, August 05, 2009, 15:38

I LIKE to buy as much as I can from local suppliers; so you can imagine how I felt when in the Hayle Co-op I picked up a tin of Irish stew which stated 'made in the UK', but was followed by "using mutton from EU, Australia or New Zealand and EU Vegetables". Well, with 27 countries in the EU, plus Australia and New Zealand that must have been some tin of stew. It makes you wonder what its carbon footprint totalled and just how many people participated in obtaining its contents – any guesses remembering it was supposed to have been made in the UK?

DEREK ELLIOTT

Angarrack