My thoughts on food today

What happened to the old days where you would rotate your crops from year to year, eat food you could grow yourself in the country you live in and having fruit and vegetables only when they were in season? Today when you walk down the isle of any supermarket, certainly in England, you can buy ANY fruit and vegetables at ANY time throughout the year. People want to buy only food that is perfectly shaped, and if the food is not available in England, it gets imported. If a tomato is not red enough to their taste, it is thrown away, rotten, used as animal feed or just wasted. This is the sad reality of the society we are living in today.

Coming from South Africa myself, the great thing is that you still have all this. If you walk into a supermarket, you buy what they harvested. If it is not apricot season, you can