Time to check provenance of your avocados - Bruce Whitehead
I like avocados and use them on toast instead of butter, with maybe an Arbroath smokie on top. I don't know if this is healthier as avocados seem quite fatty? Someone will know. Anyway I noticed that the ones on sale in Tesco this week were almost all grown in Israel.
Earlier this week I watched news footage of the destroyed house of a Lebanese couple and their child who died in a bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane or missile. Toys lay in the rubble. Edinburgh contractors supply guidance systems for some of these weapons; they're made at the Leonardo factory which used to make gunsights for Spitfires attacking Nazi fascist armies in the Second World War.
I looked at the avocados and they were very good quality. The packaging was identical to the Tesco ones I'd bought previously, grown in Peru. I wondered where these had been grown, as Israel has been steadily taking agricultural land from Palestinians and Arabs ever since it invaded in 1948. I asked a couple of staff if they had any which were not from Israel, explaining that I did not want to buy something if my money would go towards the bombing of innocent Beirut families.
They said that unfortunately there was only Israeli-grown produce available, so I declined to buy any. Then I found some perfect Chilean avocados in the reduced section, and grabbed them.
Last month in Iran the US airforce also bombed innocent targets, killing 110 schoolgirls in a strike on the very first day of the war. Yesterday over 100 experts on international law declared that the US-Israeli attack on Iran breached the UN Charter which prohibits any attack without Security Council approval or in self-defence.
So I will be keeping an eye out for US-made products on sale here, and I'll avoid them too. It's time for US citizens and politicians to impeach their clearly unstable President and put him on trial for war crimes, along with his accomplices.