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Feedback: These are prescient vintners

9 July 2014

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These are prescient vintners

CLIMATE change is of great concern to Trevor Dudley. He appreciates that global warming will result in a rise in sea level, and that Venice will flood more often. But how can Majestic Wine stores be privy to precise information on the timing and extent of the effects, so far withheld from us mortals? How else to explain the email the company sent him, headed “1 Week Left! 25% Off Italy”?

Tom Ellis notes labelled “just natural little leaves – no artificial stuff, no GMO or weird science”. What products might contain, and proudly proclaim,…

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