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Organic Meat

10 October 2007

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, as Ernst Schumacher (author of Small is Beautiful) wittily observed in the 1970s: “. . . cranks are small devices that cause revolutions”. And what a revolution! Today, organic is everywhere, and the boot’s on the other foot—in some circles, you may be ridiculed if you don’t eat organic.

Organic food is now so mainstream that whole supermarket aisles are devoted to organic products, and you can even buy it by mail order. There are farms a-plenty vying to offer you their produce, neatly boxed and delivered to your door by courier. We’ve tested the best of the bunch in the UK, specifically focusing on suppliers of organic meat.
But first, some questions and answers about organic food.

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