“Why People Buy Organic Food”

In the last post I said that some people jumped on the organic bandwagon only to give it up when they considered it to be too expensive.   This was looked at in a recent edition of the BBC’s Countryfile.   The presenter concentrated on those who purchased them from supermarkets and said that the sell of them had gone down.

But then he looked at those who bought them from Farmers Markets, independent growers, etc and said that here they had not declined, thus providing what I said.    He said that he had been reporting on Countryfile for 20 years and when he had started he said that the organic percentage could be 20%, but admitted that it wasn’t and was only 4%.

He added that the organic movement encompasses many parts and that people had taken one part, i.e. how animals are treated, concentrated on that and dropped other parts.

He also spoke to a person from the Soil Association who it would be better if all the aspects of the organic movement where taken onboard.

The Soil Association and the Organic Food

Another program, this time on ITV looked climate change, but no mention was made of the fact that organic soil can hold all the gases that cause global warming and this does not have the adverse effects that the methods of producing natural energy such as wind turbines, nuclear fuel do.  It has a plus in that it grows food that trully nourishes us.

What is Non Organic Agriculture Doing?

Another series of programs the BBC is airing is: Bees, Butterflies and Blooms.  The presenter Sarah Raven, who was previously part of the Gardners World Team takes up a theme first aired by Rachel Carson in her Silent Spring.  At the time, 50 years ago, she was rubbished, but now those who said she was wrong have to admit she was right.

In the making of the program Sarah Raven travelled all over the country speaking to those in authority and the residents of the cities, towns, villages she visited and tried to persuade them to leave part of their gardens, public spaces, etc uncultivated to encourage the growth of wild flowers, etc that pollinating insects could visit.

She asked why should we be concerened and visited a supermarket to show us why.   She filled her trolly with her usual foods and then invited the manager to remove everything we would not have if we didn’t have the pollinating insects.   She had very little left.

In this post it was asked why people buy organic food in the next one the question is what is best organic or conventionally grown food