Posted September 22nd, 2011
Organic farming has long suffered from a lack of comprehensive data. At OF&G we hear plenty of anecdotal reports of producers at least matching their previous non-organic yields after a few years of conversion, or of dairy producers even beating their non-organic production levels. What we’ve always struggled with is reliable empirical data from properly…
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Posted September 8th, 2011
Well, there’s a headline to make you sit up and think, eh? But it’s not just there as an attention grabber. It’s a précis of the results of a large study in the USA.
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Posted June 15th, 2011
We keep saying, OF&Gs’ concerns about GM technology is not about taking the Luddite position regardless of anything else; we’re just pretty sure the case isn’t proved that it’s safe or can be controlled when it’s out in the environment. Interesting then, to read this take on the situation we find ourselves in: GM regulators…
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Posted May 25th, 2011
We knew it was out there. We knew it was coming. But when, in 2009, the Food Standards Agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine sparked something of a trashing of the reputation of organic food in the media, we didn’t have the science to fight back with. Now we do.
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Posted March 31st, 2011
Here’s something we haven’t done for a while – our roundup of a some links to news and articles that caught our eye and which we consider worth a bit of your time. If you have any other useful content you think our audience would appreciate, please do add the links in the comments below……
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Posted September 15th, 2010
Sorry about that headline. I couldn’t help it. And there wasn’t mushroom for anything longer. Okay, okay. Sorry. Again. Anyway, the drivel above is all inspired by some positive sounding research reported by The Telegraph which says that organic farming methods are better for the growth of fungi in the soil which, in turn, is…
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Posted November 5th, 2009
We’re not sure how it happened, but some of us here missed the news that the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and The Arable Group had merged. So, given that we missed the announcement last month, we thought it worthy of a mention here for anyone else who was too engrossed elsewhere to pick up…
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Posted September 18th, 2009
Somewhat strangely, the Food Standards Agency has felt the need to publicly dismiss the findings of a French study that called into question its own recently published and controversial report. The FSA-funded research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine made the claim that organic food was no more nutritious than non-organic. This…
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Posted September 17th, 2009
It has been a short number of years now since the first evidence appeared linking organic milk to measurable health benefits. Bits and pieces of studies have continued to trickle out since then, all pointing to positives. Today we’ve come across a piece in Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper that, in essence, suggests more of the…
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Posted September 10th, 2009
There’s an interesting study on organic food, including nutrition, that seems to run counter to the report published a few weeks ago on behalf of the Food Standards Agency. The French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) begs to differ with the findings that proved so controversial in this country. You can view the report, led…
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