Organic food helps revive fortunes of Europe's farmers

[jpak]

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2656035.ece

The organic revolution is sweeping across Europe, with the area of land dedicated to environmentally-friendly, pesticide-free food production more than doubling in the last decade.

Organic farming now accounts for more than 4 per cent of agricultural land in the EU, more than double its 1998 share, according to a new report from its official statistics agency, Eurostat.

And organic land is likely to make greater inroads, as the consumer appetite shows no sign of slowing.

"Organic almost certainly will continue to grow and we think it's a good thing," Michael Mann, an EU agriculture spokesman said.

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[kestrel91316]

1. Meanwhile, back in the States, most of our legislators still think

organic is a bunch of bunk designed to hurt mega-corporations' profits.

Some days I wish I had been born a "cheese-eating surrender monkey". Sigh.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Wait until the mega-corporations discover organic food

We will be swimming in it -- if we can produce it at all in a climate catastrophe, that is.

--p!

[crikkett]

3. safeway did, and then we had the e. coli contamination of organic lettuce and spinach

just last year. we are swimming in it..

on edit: we grew our own spinach this year.