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The real low-down on organic food needed

In the article on vitamins (WDDTY vol 13 no 9), you refer to organically grown crops and, although you give some encouragement in that respect, by and large you seem to agree with the Food and Drink Federation and Food Standards Agency that there is little difference between organically and conventionally grown food - though they cover their tracks by asking for more research.

Can you find out the facts? Where is the evidence on which these comparisons are based? If comparisons are made with crops grown organically for only two or three years, little difference may be found from conventionally grown crops. If less than five years, depleted soils will not have had enough time to produce a healthy nutritionally adequate crop (see The Living Soil by Eve Balfour).

It isn’t just lost minerals - they are there in the soil, but have to be made available to the plants. - Hans Lobstein, Brighton

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Selenium disappearing from depleted soils - Dr John Millward of Bournemouth (WDDTY vol 13 no 6) tells us of the importance of selenium, the lack of which is sometimes misdiagnosed.

Who calls for new guidelines on organic food labels - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization have agreed that new guidelines are needed for the production, processin...

Soil quality worsens as chemicals increase - Disastrous mismanagement of our soil and intensive farming methods have created such poor food quality that high-dose supplements are not a luxury, bu...

How to get enough vitamins and minerals - Since food, in the main, is no longer very nutritional, your only recourse is to supplement with vitamins and minerals. However, there are certain cav...

Organic source of food for pets - In reply to C. Chaplin’s letter about cancer-causing petfood in WDDTY vol 13 no 9, there is a very good petfood manufactured by AMP Ltd, Freepost, Tho...

Is the soil association really the bad guy over organic meat? - The piece by Carmel McHenry in the March issue (vol 9, no 12) makes some useful points, but I wonder if the issues are best aired by pillorying the So...

Organic Meat - As recently as 30 years ago, people who insisted on eating only organic food—if they could find it—were ridiculed as food faddists and cranks. Well, a...

Strengthening your bones naturally - Choose fresh, natural unrefined organically grown or raised foods. Prepare and eat your foods with care and attention. .. ...