ORGANIC HELPS
This is the backdrop against which you must view 'organic' food. It won't guarantee you will live longer - or healthier; but it's definitely one step in the right direction.

GO FOR IT!
Why? In the short term; you will avoid eating some of the residues contained in foods grown with chemical fertilizers. In general, fewer chemicals found in organic food means less chance of cancer.

In the long term; you are reducing the chemicals which run off farmers' land and into the water table. This runs into rivers and the sea, and comes back to us in drinking water and in fish we may eat. Again, fewer chemicals means less cancer - for ourselves and our children's children.

IS ALL ORGANIC FOOD GOOD?
Of course, manufacturers and producers have caught on to the trend towards organic - and are trying to bend the rules. For example, they can go to the places in the world where the organic standards are lowest, and produce food there! Tut tut!

That is life - that is manufacturing! After all, there are over 700 bodies in the world certifying organic standards; some of them must set easier standards than others.

In the UK, the Soil Association and Demeter are two examples of organisations setting stringent standards.

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