"A possible viewpoint"

Yahoo, organic is great and the tide is turning towards it. Fantastic,
just fly organic cabbages all the way to london then by road all the way
up to peterborough then another journey by road to tesco. On the way the
stuff is slowly decomposing all it`s flavour and vitamins are being
leached. Also how much pollution have we stuck into the atmosphere by
burning fossil fuels that eventually comes down in acid rain etc. All
for the sake of consuming a chemical that has been tested, tested and
tested again.

I can go down the road and pick an awful lot of veggies direct from the
field after having a word with the landowners.

Result, no fossil fuel pollution and just a wee bit of pesticide.

So whats the answear to all this? Go find yourself a LOCAL organic box
scheme and see what you get in February. Then go to a supermarket and
see the "organic" range there. Quite a bit different I would say.

"End of possible viewpoint"

"MY viewpoint"

We all have to be sensible with the whole organic versus food mile
argument here. What I think is more important is to get the stuff as
fresh as possible so that we have maximum taste and goodness in it. I`ve
made the decision to grow my own stuff and to be honest you cant beat
the taste of my leeks as against a shop bought one (and that includes
proper fruit and veg merchants). But then how do I know how long those
veggies have been out of the ground? I dont and I guess I never will.

There will be more and more farmers deciding to go back to organic
farming as the market increases but we must be mindful of where we get
it from as well as what we are getting.

Interesting times.