This week’s study of research relating to organic food that concluded organics are not more nutritious — the one that I noted contradicts an earlier huge study funded by the EU — is the subject of another piece in today’s London Sunday Times. And guess what? It says the EU study was not included in the review.
To quote today’s story, “One study that Dangour excluded from his report is an EU-funded four-year study by Carlo Leifert, professor of ecological agriculture at Newcastle University. Leifert’s paper, which was peer-reviewed, found that organic milk contained 60% more antioxidants and healthy fatty acids than normal milk. Results from his crop studies suggest vitamin levels are up to a fifth higher in organic tomatoes, wheat and onions.”
No surprise Leifert has claimed the new study is misleading. He also said, “I’m not happy and I intend to rip their study apart in scientific journals.”
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Goodness! I read the whole article, and the part that really struck me, oddly enough ,was this sort of reverse prejudice, that organic food was this posh, snobby food, and we, the real people dismiss that. Wha?
I also think that it’s perfectly possible to find good organic food without paying tons more for it. I do, and I live in the desert!
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I noticed that too, Muse, and I’ve seen it in other British articles about many things. I can’t help but think that with the UK’s ingrained class system, almost everything comes down to class divide. For all of Blair’s talk about becoming a meritocracy it is still very much class-based.
We do seem to enjoy better prices for organics than they do, but then I recently read a British piece on what to do with what it called “exotics” — all extremely expensive. What were they? Bell peppers and zucchini (courgettes) are two that I recall. Vive la difference!