By Steph Brawn, 29 July 2025, The National
Mike Callender, who owns award-winning veg box delivery service East Coast Organics near Haddington in East Lothian, has been boycotting Israeli veg since he launched the [business] in 1996.
The 62-year-old has been voicing his anger over the genocide being carried out in Gaza in weekly newsletters to around 5000 customers and ex-customers, including his fears around farmers being murdered and their struggle to get their produce to markets.
As well as making moves to try and get his farm twinned with one in Palestine as a way of showing support, Callender is pushing for [Edinburgh] Farmer’s Market – for which he is treasurer on the committee – to become an “apartheid-free zone”, clear of any Israeli produce.