I'll do as Pret does, and boycott Pret!
Via Samizdata, it seems Pret a Manger has a pretty unpleasant agenda.
Pret appears to believe in a crude form of protrectionism:
Wherever possible we buy British.Pret thus believes in keeping wealth in the hands of those already wealthy.
It's through trade and prosperity that the poor escape poverty. Pret wants to shut that door and keep the poor in their place.
And to make it worse, they dress it up in all sorts of posturing drivel:
They are, of course, free to decide from whom to buy their supplies - just as I am free to decide whether to buy their products.
And since Pret makes an active decision to boycott developing world farmers, I'm going to make an active decision to boycott Pret.
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Max Kaye
January 23rd, 2008 8:36pmI agree with you on this on - it's sanctimonious tosh. Next time I pass by a Pret I'll pop in and tell the staff why they've lost my custom and ask them to pass it on the their manager. Companies are supposed to like feedback. Let's give it to them.
Huw Thornton
January 23rd, 2008 8:41pmToo right, Stephen. Worldwide food transportation means that there is something like a single market for food - policies like Pret's reinforce comfortable economic delusions and shafts farmers scratching a living. Anyone who supports their position ought to eat only produce grown in their own gardens/window boxes. (Or smoke it, given the propensities of the self-righteous urban middle class).
James Schneider
January 28th, 2008 5:06pmI'm fully with you. I've added them to my list of companies I am boycotting so that the price mechanism can reflect my values as well as my tastes.
lewis cash
February 13th, 2008 12:10pmtheir chicken is all from Brazil