[Pil-pc-oceania] Russia's "Private Garden-plot Act" (July 2003)

[jedd]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Linda Shewan wrote:
> Science has always disputed that organics is healthier - but we feel it, we
> know it intuitively, that science doesn't see the full picture... just take
> that thinking a little further.

 Has it?

 I thought science was very much on the side of organic (in its
 various guises) being healthier for the end consumer, as well as
 all the players in between.

 I finished reading Michael Pollan's 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' on the
 weekend, and throughout that tome he cites even more recent
 research that's suggesting additional reasons that science is coming
 up with to support the 'organic is healthier' position.

 I still think we need to come up with another name, and probably
 an accompanying measurement system, though.  Organic has been
 diluted / neutered / annexed to the point that it's pretty much a
 misleading appellation now, IMO.

 Jedd.