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Thursday, February 22, 2001

Why not charge people for water? It’s something our food industry has perfected

"Commercially made organic food is not commensurate with quality. You lose the care, the traceability, all the things you believed were intrinsic to the organic manifesto. The giants start whittling away at the corners, because quality is not their prime objective. I'm not saying that the organicness is the problem; more that it's the cynical abuse of something people have worked hard at because they believe in it, and which is now being exploited purely for financial gain."

Telegraph. The quality and healthy reputation that the small farmers, markets, butchers and other organic producers have struggled to build for decades is being undermined by clearly non-organic products and immense marketing budgets of companies that care nothing for prinicple. "The meat, as in organic, mass-produced sausages, has probably been pasted through a grinder and could consist of gristle, ears, skin and all the extremities you can imagine."'

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