REGARDING Clitheroe cleric the Rev Rodney Nicholson's misgivings that the new Sainsbury's supermarket advertises the glut of food in Britain and the West as being obscene in a world of hunger and poverty (LET, April 20), sowing and reaping, to quote the Reverend's book, spring to mind.

This being the age of political correctness though, I suppose this type of thought is unacceptable.

He further mentions the shock of a woman from Zimbabwe who was amazed at the variety of pet food available in our stores, when food is scarce for humans in her country.

She would be well advised to change the name of her homeland to Rhodesia, which, under Mr Ian Smith and the industrious farming community, was part of the Garden of Africa along with Kenya and South Africa.

The Lancashire Evening Telegraph Comment even tried to substantiate these PC views by asking us to consider if we are right in presuming that the contents of our shopping trolley are fair reward for our industry and enterprise.

I say yes, and in the same breath do not expect the oil-wealthy sheikhs or diamond-mining countries of the world to send me my allocation of what is not naturally available in my country, this green and fertile land - my England, a new Jerusalem.

DAVID GEORGE (Mr), Downham Street, Blackburn.

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