LETTERS – Why not source from UK?

Today, I learned that a producer – based in Lancashire – of ready meals for Lidl had sourced their chickens from Brazil and their cauliflower from the EU.

I wrote to the supplier and Lidl to question the logic of such purchases – the UK produces both chicken and vegetables.

Surely it would have been better, cheaper and easier for them to source their supplies from the UK? Think of all the carbon miles they would have saved. Not to mention a boost to our flagging economy.

It simply does not compute.

Phillip James
Fleet Hargate