FIRST AND FOREMOST A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR FRIENDS, READERS AND CUSTOMERS
DISTURBING BUT HARDLY SURPRISING NEWS from Sue
Two issues ago, in The French Week, I noticed an article about carcinogens in food, primarily, although not exclusively, in food given to children. The results of a collaborative Franco/Belgian study are a serious indictment of the food industry.
As organic food sellers, we naturally have to do our nutritional health homework, which entails a lot of reading and research. We are not in the least surprised at these findings but very glad they are being brought to attention of the public. Here is the link to an article on the study in The Guardian - perhaps the most reputable and honest of the British papers these days.
I could go banging on forever about the desirability of eating organic, but with articles like these, I shouldn't need to. However, I can't pass up the opportunity to emphasize that food grown in degraded soil (i.e. full of herbicides, pesticides etc) will be degraded too. It might look great but it will inevitably be lacking in nutrients. 'We Want Real Food' by Graham Harvey is particularly interesting on this subject. Likewise animal products from industrially-farmed livestock fed the wrong food, treated regularly with anti-biotics and hormones to 'cure' their ailments and speed up growth are likely to be as bad for the humans eating them as for the poor animals themselves.
Food processing is what it says it is, put through a variety of processes which invariably remove the goodness - hydrogenisation for example, see this link for more info. And as for all the chemical additives listed in miniscule print on labels, not in my body thanks.
Having said I could go banging on, I find myself doing just that. Sorry. The article says plenty.
