People can probably begin to see why British Farmers shy away from being organic. The Soil Association are so bl--dy smug!
For some time now I have wondered if Peter Melchet knows quite as much as he makes out. I suspect it is fear of the unknown (to him) because he is determined to go backwards and continue to condemn GM as an outmoded method of production.
We simply do not have enough land to waste on the real outmoded form of production which is Organics.
I have an idea that because Bill and Melinda Gates have given money to the method of production that shows the most promise to try and feed the starving because this is something no mater what is said organic methods simply could not feed the expected increase in world population.
If just this country were to go 100% organic there would be starvation in the UK let alone the rest of the world. The UK simply cannot feed itself now and we rely very heavily on food importation and especially Hard Wheats for bread which is part of our staple diet.
The Soil Association release, written by a research student, is clearly from somebody who is young and lacks sufficient knowledge to make such pronouncements as she does.
JB.
