It may be relevant that the 44-pence pineapples are universally from Ivory Coast, a country currently in the grips of fairly severe turmoil, and whose travel advice from the FCO is 'under no circumstances go there'.
The 174-pence pineapples are from either Costa Rica or Ghana, both of which are basically safe.
I bought the more expensive pineapple - you know well that I'm a soft touch. And it's so much more convenient to do the one-stop process at Tesco than to buy the cheap pineapple and then figure out how to donate £1.30 to the pineapple producers of Cote d'Ivoire.
Of course, I suspect that the split grower:middlemen:tesco is 10/80/10 for the cheap pineapples and 20/60/20 for the expensive ones, so Tesco's profits are much improved by my buying the costly pineapple.
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Date: 2005-07-24 03:20 pm (UTC)The 174-pence pineapples are from either Costa Rica or Ghana, both of which are basically safe.
I bought the more expensive pineapple - you know well that I'm a soft touch. And it's so much more convenient to do the one-stop process at Tesco than to buy the cheap pineapple and then figure out how to donate £1.30 to the pineapple producers of Cote d'Ivoire.
Of course, I suspect that the split grower:middlemen:tesco is 10/80/10 for the cheap pineapples and 20/60/20 for the expensive ones, so Tesco's profits are much improved by my buying the costly pineapple.