By: redkite
I eat organic food when I can as it means I am not taking in any pesticides, fungicides or other nasties. That aside I don’t think non-organic food is any different. Report this comment
View ArticleBy: skeptictank
The nutritional value of the food is only one dimension of the organic objective. The different pest control and fertiliser methods in organic farming makes it less toxic to the environment. The animal...
View ArticleBy: richard
Agree with the previous two posters – I eat organic whenever possible NOT because of the taste – but because it is better for the planet. Intensive farming is not the way to go in any way shape or...
View ArticleBy: Argus
What do you think is done here in this country over the vast majority of our “natural landscape”? What you buy to ease your conscience will have no effect on the way most foods are currently produced....
View ArticleBy: Phil
Not surprised. I seem to recall another report published a few years ago about the amount of non-organic food that was being sold as organic and the near impossibility of distinguishing between the...
View ArticleBy: Alizarin
I don’t believe it’s ever been a claim that organically produced food has extra nutrients. This is about choice. The whole point of organic is that it is produced on soil that is chemical and...
View ArticleBy: wavechange
Great theory, red kite, but are you aware that aflatoxin levels can be substantially higher in organic food containing cereals? These are mycotoxins produced by moulds, and can cause organ damage and...
View ArticleBy: boringsceptic
Organic food is better for your health if you believe it is better for your health. This is because all organic food contains lots of “placebo”, which unfortunately is only effective on the credulous....
View ArticleBy: Vic Shorrocks
Absence of Evidence for Health Benefits of Organic Food It should never be forgotten that Eve Balfour and friends who founded the Soil Association in the 1940s had been taken in by the claims coming...
View ArticleBy: Susie B
Hi Everyone, It’s a very interesting debate but I do feel that I need more information. Vic, how do you know why the Soil Association stopped the experiment? Have they admitted their reasons? Was it...
View ArticleBy: Vic Shorrocks
Susie I know about the Haughley experiment (the 22 years and the reasons for stopping) from what Eve Balfour subsequently wrote. She was an honest person who would I believe be turning in her grave if...
View ArticleBy: PHIL SMART
Some years ago I was unable to eat broccolli without a bad stomach,then I read that if you can’t eat one brassica you will not be able to eat the others due to the pesticide used on them.It is the...
View ArticleBy: wavechange
Plants including brocoli need manganese to grow. It is required for various purposes including photosynthesis. Elements cannot be destroyed. Please don’t believe everything you read, Phil. Report this...
View ArticleBy: PHIL SMART
Thanks for that. You learn something new every day. How sad that opposing elements don’t tell the truth just to prove their case. I’d have more respect for them if they were a little less positive and...
View ArticleBy: richard
I repeat – I don’t support or eat organic because it is good or bad for mankind – but because it is far better for insects birds and wild animals. As an avid entomologist I am appalled at the rapid...
View ArticleBy: mose
It’s all very well to say intensive farming is not the way to go but maybe you have not noticed that the world population has doubled in the last 50 years. It’s all very well for people in affluent...
View ArticleBy: mose
Just goes to show how much profit is made! Organic production, by it’s very nature should be more expensive as the yield will be lower and land costs money. Report this comment
View ArticleBy: mose
exactly Vic, re the population needing to be fed. Interesting about the nitro fixing plants. Assume they work like beans nitro nodules. I too grow veg on my small plot. I use homegrown compost from...
View ArticleBy: mose
Thing is, how do we feed 7 billion people? By all having an allotment? Report this comment
View ArticleBy: wavechange
I broadly agree with what you say, mose, though with GM crops we need to think about environmental issues as well as human safety. I completely agree about the issue of population growth, but any...
View ArticleBy: wavechange
Organic non-intensive farming uses a lot more land, so less land is available for wildlife. It is difficult to know what to do for the best. Not everyone can afford or wants to pay the premium price...
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By: mose
The environmental issue, yes, goes without saying.. No one wants to live in a toxic environment (thats why I moved out of London… hic! ) As for population, i don’t see it as an infringement on personal...
View ArticleBy: I-M
If we encourage thirds world countries to use man made fertilisers, pesticides and GM crops, how are they going to be able to sustain this for themselves? All these non-organic means of farming come at...
View ArticleBy: wavechange
We can try to waste less food and most of us in the UK could benefit from eating less, but how do we produce enough food for everyone using organic farming, which requires more land to produce the same...
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