Strange Fruit [Guardian]

A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 2nd September 2008

I feel almost shy about writing this column. It contains no revelations, no call to arms. No one gets savaged: well, only mildly. The subject is almost inconsequential. Yet it has become an obsession which, at this time of year, forbids me to concentrate for long on anything else.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/09/02/strange-fruit/