Why buy organic food?

Organic food is healthier. The research has been done and it shows that organic food is more nutritious. In 2000, Patrick Holden of the Soil Association told the BBC that:

Despite this high profile announcement on the proven benefits of organic food to human health, worried intensive farming supporters rallied against it. Now though, we have undisputable evidence of organic food benefits.

In October 2007, preliminary results from a 4-year research programme show that -

BBC article,2007

It has been widely accepted for years that there are higher levels of vitamin C in certain organically grown vegetables and fruit. For more information on the health and safety benefits of organic food please click on benefits of organic food.

In Italy in 2002, a study found that organically raised chicken contained higher levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, including 38% more of the highly beneficial Omega 3, than found in factory-farmed chicken.

The free-range element of organic farming affected the meat as well. Compared to the non-organic, non-free range chickens, the organic/free range contained 65% less fat!

In 2007, the findings of a 4-year EU study were published. The results proved conclusively that organic farming produces healthier and safer foods. Click here to read more on this study.

It is believed that the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the influential food safety watchdog in the UK, will change their stance as a result of these latest findings. Until now the FSA has refused to acknowledge the benefits of organic food. They are saying they will let us, the consumer, know what they have decided at the end of 2008.

In the UK, millions of us have already made our mind up (not to mention countless millions overseas), and are now buying organic food to the tune of £2 billion pound per year.

Don't wait for the blessing of the FSA, and don't be put off by the myth that organic produce is too expensive to buy.

Please Click Buy organic food - you CAN afford it to dispel the myth that we pay more for organic food.

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