For years British farmers have gotten fat on subsidies and easy
street, they pumped our produce full of pesticides and herbicides
without a care for anybody but themselves. The public is slowly waking
up.

Viva Organic. This is why we must fight the GM devils.



http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/news/

Sales of organic food top pounds 1bn for the first time as families
come back for more

Once it was the preserve of health obsessives and eco-conscious
vegetarians. Now the organic food industry has come of age: its annual
sales in Britain have topped pounds 1bn for the first time, prompting
observers to talk of a revolution in British eating habits.

The desire for better tasting meals and fears for the safety of food
have led to the market growing 10% in a year, making Britain the third
largest market in the world for organic produce, behind the US, whose
sales total pounds 5.9bn, and Germany, pounds 1.6bn.

We spend pounds 53 a year per household on organic food, but there is
a long way to go before it dominates the market: the total British
family budget for food and non-alcoholic drinks for a year is pounds
2,200.

A report into the state of the organic market and agriculture in the
UK produced yesterday by the Soil Association, which certifies organic
produce, shows that fruit and vegetables are the foods most likely to
be tried by new organic consumers, with better health and better taste
the primary motivating factors.

Food quality, animal welfare, environmental benefits and avoidance of
GM ingredients are also significant influences. Those who do not buy
organic food say the extra cost is the biggest deterrent.

The most remarkable change has been in the demand for baby food.
Parents' fears for what their infants may be eating along with their
vegetable and fruit purees has led to three in four babies being fed
only with organic lines. Manufacturers have been forced to cancel
orders for ingredients with traditional farmers and switch to
guaranteeing all ingredients are organic.

Copyright © 2003 The Guardian.

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In article , LordSnooty
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For years British farmers have gotten fat on subsidies and easy
street, they pumped our produce full of pesticides and herbicides
without a care for anybody but themselves. The public is slowly waking
up.

Viva Organic. This is why we must fight the GM devils.

One of the biggest confidence tricks ever played on mankind.
--
martin sage

"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.

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:04:58 GMT, Christopher Norton
wrote:

"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.

Indeed. Hopefully it's a start back to good old, honest, good,
wholesome food.

Grow your own is much, much better, once you get used to sharing your
food with Gods creatures ;-)
I don't mind, I grow enough for them as well.


I say allotments should be compulsory.





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Since I stopped donating money to CONservation hooligan charities
Like the RSPB, Woodland Trust and all the other fat cat charities
I am in the top 0.801% richest people in the world.
There are 5,951,930,035 people poorer than me

If you're really interested I am the 48,069,965
richest person in the world.

And I'm keeping the bloody lot.

So sue me.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

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5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know
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9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while
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10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're
as bent as a roundabout.
11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet
12) Die of old age
13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you
will have a penis the girls can see.

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