VAT on fruit?

Emirate fruitiness, originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

The UK's finances are in a mess, with so much money having been gioven to the banks (partly to pay the bonuses to the managers), and they are now thinking of iontroducing VAT on food, including fresh fruit and vegetables.

Surely a tax on hamburgers, chips, seets and chocolates and fast foods, would be more in order than a tax on fresh fruit and vegetables?

Anyway, this fruit stall by the side of the road going down the east coast of Fujairah emirate, provided some welcome colour against the greyness of the rock and the haziness of the skies above.