Getting my dander up...

So one of the main news items today is about the shortage of leafy green and 'summer' vegetables due to poor weather conditions in their country of origin.
Major supermarkets have introduced rationing measures, limiting the number of items of affected veg that any one shopper may purchase. 
My initial thought was, "Is this a covert government-led healthy-eating kick?", but no, it is down to flooding in areas of Europe where the UK nabs it's winter saladery from.

This has got me dander in a rufffle, I can tell you!

Why do we need to eat lettuce in February?
IT DOESN'T GROW HERE IN FEBRUARY!?!
Eat seasonally.
Eat carrots, cabbage, spuds, onions.

Eat lettuce when it grows naturally in this country: it does grow under glass, I know, but slower than in late Spring and in the Summer.

Are people so inflexible with meal planning?
So rigid with "having to have" what must be imported at a high price? 
With continuing to consume the same things day after week after month to the point that the supermarket causes a major news story by limiting one resource when there are countless alternatives?
If healthy eating is the goal, salad could be raw veg sticks with hummus, veg soup/stew or curry, or a jacket potato.

And as for no broccoli?

(Well bless my soul; that puts paid to my diet plan for the week, I'd better have a kebab...)