The Organic Food Myth
January 12, 2007
blogs.salon.com
By Jan Haugland
Original article by Rob Lyons, Spiked
Organic food has more to do with choosing an eco-lifestyle than safer or more healthy products, writes Rob Lyons.
A new book just published in the US, The Truth About Organic Foods provides a thorough examination of the evidence. The author, Alex Avery, shares Miliband’s conclusion that organic food is no healthier than ‘conventional’ food produced by industrial methods – and also argues that the claim of organic food to be better for the environment is suspect. As Avery, a trained plant physiologist and biologist now working for the Hudson Institute told me, nobody has been putting the other side of the story on organic: ‘The “organic utopian” myth has become a serious roadblock to agricultural progress and I knew that some of the organic food industry’s main claims were simply smoke and mirrors and religious dogma.’
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